![]() Hunterīegins the verse by invoking the elements of song: words and Song, about listening to the song and making it your own. ![]() The first verse, addressing the listener, is about Hunter, in choosing the folk lyric format, has infused it with ![]() Sense of cosmic oneness, and of East meeting West. Late 1960's, with overtones of that Haight-Ashbury era, such as a A true song is meant to be sung, and so its words mustīe easy to remember, unless it is an experimental or art song.īut Hunter wrote "Ripple" in the folk song tradition during the "Ripple" is a song lyric by Robert Hunter. Hunter has posted the manuscript of an early draft of the song in his archives. If you should stand then who's to guide you? It's a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken Would you hold it near as it were your own? Would you hear my voice come through the music If my words did glow with the gold of sunshineĪnd my tunes were played on the harp unstrung Reproducedīy arrangement with Ice Nine Publishing Co., Inc. ("Ripple" composed and written by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter. Words by Robert Hunter music by Jerry Garcia. Dowling's "Ripple": A Minor ExcursusĪlso, a sermon, "No Simple Highway," by Elizabeth Greene, is available. The Annotated "Ripple" "Let there be songs to fill the air" The Annotated "Ripple"Īn installment in The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics.ġ997-98 Research Associate, Music Dept., University of California, Santa Cruz
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