Uploaded August 2012 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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Janis Joplin Tribute - One of the best Bird Songs ever, 40 years ago this week "The Field Trip" Grateful Dead Live at Old Renaissance Faire Grounds on August 27, 1972.

Entire show streaming here:
archive.org/details/gd72-08-27.sbd.orf.3328.sbeok.shnf

"Bird Song"
Words by Robert Hunter; music by Jerry Garcia

All I know is something like a bird
within her sang
All I know she sang a little while
and then flew on
Tell me all that you know
I'll show you
Snow and rain
If you hear that same sweet song again
will you know why?
Anyone who sings a tune so sweet
is passing by

Laugh in the sunshine
sing
cry in the dark
fly
through the night
Don't cry now
Don't you cry
Don't you cry
anymore
lalalada
Sleep
in the stars
don't you cry
dry your eyes
on the wind
lalalala
la........