Lyrics:
Bobby Peterson
Music:
Phil LeshReprinted with permissions copyright
Ice Nine Publishing
Out
on the edge of
the empty highway
Howling at the blood on the moon
Big diesel Mack rolling down my way
Can't hit that border too soon
Running hard out of
Muskrat Flats
It was sixty days or double life
Hail at my back like a
shotgun blast
High
wind chimes in the night
Oh, oh, pride of
Cucamonga
Oh, oh,
bitter olives in the sun
Oh, oh, I had me some loving
And
I done some time
Since I came down from
Oregon
There's a lesson or two I've learned
By standing in the road alone
Standing watching the fires burn
The northern sky it stinks with greed
You can smell it for miles around
Good old boys in the
Greystone Hotel
Sitting doing that
git-on-down
Oh, oh, pride of Cucamonga
Oh, oh,
silver apples in the sun
Oh, oh, I had me some loving
And I done some time
I see your silver shining town
But I know I can't go there
Your streets run deep with poisoned wine
Your doorways
crawl with fear
So I think I'll drift for old where it's at
Where the
weed grows green and fine
And wrap myself around a bush
Of that bright whoa, oh,
Oaxaca vine
Yes it's me, I'm
the pride of Cucamonga
I can see golden forests in the sun
Oh, oh,
I had me some loving
And I done some time
And I done some time
And I done some time
Recorded on
From the Mars Hotel.
Never performed live by the
Grateful Dead.
Busted-out of the
black hole by
Phil Lesh and Friends in 1999.