"scattered like lost words..."

Grateful Dead Lyric Concordance

a work in progress

compiled by

Sven Bachmann

(published with his permission in The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics)
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List of songs acknowledged



A - Alligator

AATW - Iīve been all around this world

AG - Alabama getaway

Alt - Althea

AOML - Attics of my life

B - Bertha

BCE - Born cross-eyed

BdP - Brokedown palace

BE - Brother Esau

BEW - Brown-eyed women

BFA - Blues for Allah

BOR - Box of rain

BP - Black Peter

BS - Bird song

BTW - Black throated wind

C - Cassady

CAT - Comes a time

CB - Cumberland Blues

CC - Cosmic Charlie

CCS - China cat sunflower

CD - China doll

CF - Crazy fingers

CfJ - Catfish John

CJ - Casey Jones

Cm - Candyman

CPR - Cream puff war

D - Deal

DDB - Dupreeīs diamond blues

DS - Dark star

DTR - Doing that rag

DW - Dire wolf

ElP - El Paso

EOTW - Eyes of the world

EP - Estimated Prophet

EW - Easy wind

FLAS - Feel like a stranger

FOTD - Friend of the devil

FOTM - Fire on the mountain

FT - Franklinīs tower

G - Gomorrah

GDTR - Going down the road

GSET - Greatest story ever told

HCS - Here comes sunshine

HG - Heīs gone

HOTW - Help on the way

HT - High time

IIHTWTG - If I had the world to give

IMHBTR - It must have been the roses

INAM - I need a miracle

ISTE - I second that emotion

ITAM - Iīll take a melody

JS - Jack Straw

L - Loser

LL - Lazy lightning

LLR - Looks like rain

LLu - Loose Lucy

MABMG - Me & Bobby Mc Gee

MAMU - Me & my uncle

MB - Mexicali Blues

MC - Masonīs children

MD - Morning dew

MHUT - Mississippi halfstep uptown toodeloo

MITR - Mission in the rain

MOTM - Mountains of the moon

MT - Mama tried

NPC - New potato caboose

NSB - New speedway boogie

NTYSM - Next time you see me

O - Operator

OMSN - One more Saturday night

P - Passenger

PITB - Playing in the band

POC - Pride of Cucamonga

R - Ripple

RJ - Row Jimmy

Rm - Rosemary

ROR - Ramble on rose

S - Sugaree

SAD - Samson & Delilah

SB - Scarlet begonias

Sbl - Stella Blue

SdS - Shakedown street

SL - Stagger Lee

SM - Sugar magnolia

SOF - Ship of fools

SOTOTW - Sitting on top of the world

SS - St.Stephen

Sup - Supplication

T - Trucking

TE - The Eleven

TGR - The golden road

ThS - Throwing stones

THTC - The harder they come

TJ - Tennessee Jed

TLMD - To lay me down

TMNS - The music never stopped

TOO - The other one

TPR - The promised land

TRIO - The race is on

TS - Terrapin Station

TTMC - Till the morning comes

TW - The wheel

UC - Unbroken chain

UJB - Uncle Johnīs band

USB -US Blues

WBOTB - Whatīs become of the baby

WhR - Wharf rat

WPCTS - When push comes to shove

WR  I & II - Weather report I & II



 

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Words not acknowledged

  



  Abraham - GSET + 

BFA

  afterdeck - MHUT

  ajar - GSET

  alright - CF

  always - NSB

  american - BTW

  arabian - BFA

  axis - DS

  backstage - SM

  backwash - DW

  badlands - ElP

  barbed - WPCTS

  barefooting - TGR

  barley - WR II

  battes - CPR

  Bayo - SL

  Bayou - EW

  be-bop - Llu

  bedroom - WPCTS

  bloodwind - ThS

  boogie - NSB

  boomerang - TE

  bushel - WR II

  bye - SS

  December - WBOTB

  demon - DTR

  den - TS

  deuces - DTR

  do-dah - T

  do-pas-o - RJ

  dock - WhR

  doggie - TJ

  dominion - TE

  droop - TE

  hallelujah - TE

  hatrack - TE

  hereabouts - D

  hickīry - BEW

  hipster - DTR

  homeland - EOTW

  horseback - MB

  o.k. - Alt + INAM

  rattlesnake - WPCTS

  ray - SM

  rein - TE

  repo-man - MC

  riddle - MOTM

  rol - MOTM

  rollerskates - BE

  royal - ROR

  rye - MHUT

  sawhet - UC

  scrutiny - Alt

  self-centered - Alt

  semis - BTW

  seventeen - CJ

  seventy - USB

  several - SS

  shakedown - SdS

  shooter - IBAATW

  sideshow - INAM

  sidewalk - ThS

  six-hundred - DW

  sixty - POC

  sleeplessness - BE

  solemnly - TOO

  solitude - MOTM

  songbirds - WBOTB

  spanish - TOO

  speedway - NSB

  spur - GSET

  square - SB

  stainless - WPCTS

  stargown - CCS

  station - CJ

  statuesque - INAM

  steak - TPL

  stella - Sbl

  styrofoam - MHUT

  summertime - USB

  switchman - CJ

  sybil - MOTM

  tambourine - C

  taxi - TPL

  telephone - TPL

  tennis - A

  terminal - TPL

  thirteen - TPL

  thundercloud - SdS

  tidewater - TPL

  timbers - DW

  toodeloo - MHUT

  toothless - NPC

  transit - MHUT

  treetops - PITB

  trombone - CCS

  twixt - SS

  watchman - JS

  whalebelly - TE

  windshield - MABMG

  yo-yo - Llu

 

Posted October, 1996