Once In A While You Get Shown The Light In The Strangest Of Places

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City Winery, Chicago, July 4, 2015. Photo: MBuffett

I ain’t always right but I’ve never been wrong

Seldom turns out the way it does in a song

Once in a while you get shown the light

In the strangest of places if you look at it right

There ain’t nothing wrong with the way she moves

Or Scarlet begonias

Or a touch of the blues

And there’s nothing wrong with the look that’s in her eyes

I had to learn the hard way to let her pass by, let her pass by

The wind in the willows play, ‘Tea for two”

The sky was yellow and the sun was blue

Strangers stopping, strangers just to shake their hand

Everybody’s playing in the heart of gold band, heart of gold band

-from Scarlet Begonias by Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia

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