"Let your tracks be lost in the dark and snow"

The Annotated "Till the Morning Comes"

An installment in The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics.
By David Dodd
Library, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
"Till the Morning Comes"
Words by Robert Hunter; music by Jerry Garcia

"Till the Morning Comes"

Recorded on

First performance: September 18, 1970, at the Fillmore East in New York City. "Till the Morning Comes" followed "It's a Man's World" and preceded "Me and My Uncle." It remained in the repertoire for only five performances.


Till we all fall down

Echoing the nursery rhyme, "Ring a ring a rosie," which is also mentioned in two other Grateful Dead songs: "Throwing Stones", and "Doin' That Rag."
Keywords: @nursery rhyme
DeadBase code: TILL
First posted: February 1, 1996
Last revised: