"I Will Take You Home"
Words by John Perry Barlow; music by Brent Mydland
Reprinted with permissions copyright Ice Nine Publishing
One of the sweetest
Grateful Dead songs ever. Listening to it can make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.
Very much a
lullabye
Little girl lost
In a forest of dreams.
It's a dark old wood
And it's damp with dew.
Hoot
owl hoots
For a moment it seems
Something big and cold
Just got ahold of you.
Just when everything gets scary,
Daddy's come 'round for his darlin' again.
Hold my hand with your little fingers.
Daddy's loving arms gonna gather you in.
Ain't no way the Bogeyman can get you,
You can close your eyes, the world is gonna let you,
Your daddy's here and never will forget you,
I will take you home.
I will take you home.
Gonna carry you back home
In my arms.
I will take you home.
Long is the road
We must travel on down.
Short are the legs
That will struggle behind.
I wish I knew for sure
Just where we're bound,
What we will be doin'
And what we're gonna find.
Wherever we go, there will be
birds to cheer you
Flower to color in the fields around.
Wherever we go, I'll be right here near you
You can't get lost when you're always found.
Ain't no
fog that's thick enough to hide you
Your daddy's gonna be right here beside you
If your fears should start to get inside you
I will take you home.
I will take you home.
Gonna carry you back home
In my arms.
I will take you home.
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First performance: Wednesday, June 22, 1988, at
Alpine Valley Music Theatre,
East Troy,
Wisconsin.
Final performance: July 14, 1990, at
Foxboro Stadium in
Foxboro,
Massachusetts, twelve days before Mydland's death on July 26.