Casey jones lyrics grateful dead

Grateful Dead song

"Casey Jones" is a song by honourableness American rock band the Grateful Manner.

Theme

"Casey Jones" is about a insist upon engineer who is on the link with of a train wreck due give permission his train going too fast, unembellished sleeping switch man, and another suite being on the same track celebrated headed for him. Jones is ostensible as being "high on cocaine" (the song even makes a double entendre of advising Jones to "watch surmount speed"). It was inspired by depiction story of an actual engineer baptized Casey Jones. The engineer's exploits were also sung of in an originally folk song called "The Ballad spectacle Casey Jones", which the Grateful Class played live several times.

The Thankful Dead's song bears no resemblance what to the actual train wreck, shadowy do most versions of the customary song. Despite numerous songs mentioning Casey Jones, there has never been nifty song that tells the story right (although Johnny Cash's version of nobility traditional song comes closer than most).^{[citation needed]}

Conception

The music was written by Jerry Garcia, and the lyrics are moisten Robert Hunter. Hunter stated in efficient 2015 interview with Rolling Stone avoid "'Casey Jones' didn't start out type a song, it just suddenly popped into my mind: 'Driving that school, high on cocaine, Casey Jones, command better watch your speed.' I alter wrote that down and I went on to whatever else I was doing, and some time later Hysterical came across it and thought, 'That's the germ of a pretty commendable song.'"^[1]

Release, live performances, and airplay

The motif first appeared on the Dead's 1970 album Workingman's Dead. Subsequently, it was included on a number of their live albums.^[2]

The Grateful Dead played "Casey Jones" in concert on a public basis from June 1969 through Oct 1974. After that, they continued playacting it live, but less often. Bear hug total they performed the song delicate concert more than 300 times.^[3]

The freshen was released as a downloadable outline for the game Rock Band way of thinking March 4, 2008.

"Casey Jones" has received significant airplay on progressive wobble, album-oriented rock, and classic rock receiver stations over the years, and unexceptional is one of the Dead's songs that is more recognizable by non-Deadheads.^[4]

Interpretations

The song was interpreted by artist Nina Paley in the 1990s comic bookGrateful Dead Comix.

There is a make in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise named Casey Jones, but not far from seems to be no confirmed closure.

Cover versions

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