Grateful Dead – St Stephen (Guitar)

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[Intro] | B B | D D A A E E | D D A A B B | A A D D E E | D D A A B B | [Verse]
E             D
Saint Stephen with a rose,

A                 E
In and out of the garden he goes,

E                      D
Country garland in the wind and the rain,

    A
Wherever he goes the people all complain.

E                     D
Did Stephen prospered in his time?

A                     E
Well he may and he may decline.

E                D
Did it matter, does it now?

 A
Stephen would answer if he only knew how.
B Lick
E                     D
Wishing well with a golden bell,

A                    E
Bucket hanging clear to hell,

E                   D
Hell halfway twixt now and then,

A
Stephen fill it up and lower down and lower down again.
Bridge [Verse]
E          D A             E
Lady finger, dipped in moonlight,

D                  A           E            D
Writing "What for?" across the morning sky.

E                 D A            E
Sunlight splatters, dawn with answer,

D                   A                E   D
Darkness shrugs and bids the day goodbye.

E             D A             E
Speeding arrow, sharp and narrow,

D             A                E                D
What a lot of fleeting matters you have spurned.

E              D A              E
Several seasons  with their treasons,

D                A               E            D
Wrap the babe in scarlet colors, call it your own.

E                  D
Did he doubt or did he try?

A                     E
Answers aplenty in the bye and bye,

E                        D
Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills,

A
One man gathers what another man spills.

E               D
Saint Stephen will remain,

A               E
All he's lost he shall regain,

E                     D
Seashore washed by the suds and foam,

A
Been here so long, he's got to calling it home.

E
Fortune comes a crawlin', calliope woman,

D                     A             E
Spinnin' that curious sense of your own.

E                     D
Can you answer? Yes I can.

    A                               E      D      E
But what would be the answer to the answer man?