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To: SIer formerly known as Joe B. who wrote (26366)6/20/2001 1:50:49 PM
From: JakeStraw  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 49843
 
I just turned 43 a week and a 1/2 ago...What a (semi) long strange trip it's been! :^)



To: SIer formerly known as Joe B. who wrote (26366)6/20/2001 11:44:21 PM
From: Estimated Prophet  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 49843
 
Da#n! I thought you were older than me but not even close! I turned 40 six months ago.

I wasn't even into the dead until almost 1981. Thought nothing about them at all until my best friend's girlfriend started playing the two disc greatest hits album while I lived with her for a while in the summer of '80. St. Stephen is the song that got me started as a deadhead. Boy did she give good back rubs!!!!!!!!!!! But that is another story.....[I hope my wife never reads this.]

Saint Stephen with a rose
In and out of the garden he goes
Country garland in the wind and the rain
Wherever he goes the people all complain

Stephen prosper in his time
Well he may and he may decline
Did it matter? does it now?
Stephen would answer if he only knew how

Wishing well with a golden bell
Bucket hanging clear to hell
Hell halfway twixt now and then
Stephen fill it up and lower down
And lower down again

Lady finger dipped in moonlight
Writing `what for?' across the morning sky
Sunlight splatters dawn with answers
Darkness shrugs and bids the day goodbye

Speeding arrow, sharp and narrow,
What a lot of fleeting matters you have spurned
Several seasons with their treasons
Wrap the babe in scarlet covers call it your own

Did he doubt or did he try?
Answers aplenty in the bye and bye
Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills
One man gathers what another man spills

Saint Stephen will remain
All he's lost he shall regain
Seashore washed by the suds and the foam
Been here so long he's got to calling it home

Fortune comes a crawlin, Calliope woman
Spinning that curious sense of your own
Can you answer? Yes I can,
but what would be the answer to the answer man?