Grateful Dead - The Music Never Stopped Lyrics






There's mosquitoes on the river Fish are rising up like birds
It's been hot for seven weeks now,
Too hot to even speak now, Did you hear what I just heard?

Say it might have been a fiddle or it could have been the wind
But there seems to be a beat now I can feel it my feet now
Listen here it comes again!

There's a band out on the highway, They're high steppin' into town
It's a rainbow full of sound, It's fireworks, calliopes and clowns
Everybody dancin' C'mon children, C'mon children, Come on clap your hands.

Sun went down in honey and the moon came up in wine,
You know stars were spinnin' dizzy, Lord
The band kept us too busy we forgot about the time.

They're a band beyond description, Like Jehovah's favorite choir
People joining hand in hand While the music played the band, Lord
They're setting us on fire.

Crazy rooster crowin' midnight, Balls of lightin' roll along
Old men sing about their dreams, Women laugh and children scream
And the band keeps playin' on.

Keep on dancin' thru the daylight, Greet the mornin' air with song
No ones's noticed, but the band's all pack and gone. Was it ever there at all?
But they keep on dancin' C'mon children, C'mon children, Come on clap your hands
Well the cool breeze came on Tuesday, And the corn's a bumper crop
And the fields are full of dancin' Full of singin' and romancin'
The music never stopped.





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  1. T.... B....

    Listen at 0.75x speed for ultimate groovy feels

  2. J.... L....

    Best music to listen to after a few hits from a doobie

  3. D.... R....

    One of those great Dead songs that you don't hear so often. Great groove and even has some nice sax.

  4. R.... J....

    "No ones noticed but the bands all packed and gone, was it ever here at all? "

  5. K.... C....

    Trip out to the dead. You'll never be the same again!

    K.... C....

    Listen to em after u have smoked a doobie of the ganja

  6. K.... C....

    It could have been the wind.

  7. J.... H....

    Young GD , you have no idea. when love comes in from your head down to your toes. it never stops.

  8. s.... ....

    Hot for 7 weeks now too hot to even speak now just like ohio

  9. C.... B....

    Forever in hearts & for that we are Grateful Dead heads!

  10. M.... M....

    Ooooo weeee this is funkaaaay

  11. W.... B....

    The ultimate summer anthem!

  12. M.... M....

    August 13th 1975 best version of this song!

  13. T.... ....

    This song was sheer perfection...until Donna started singing...Ughhhh. WTF!!! Just because your Husband is playing the Piano does NOT mean you can sing!!!

  14. L.... H....

    And steal a lost double down bet that was redoubled it is over ten thousand of mayan kids choice is all thats left atlantis was refused through bells Minerva dc ccodc

  15. L.... H....

    I was 28 years old there cops and criminals at hopital square and com country clubs of the masonic mason king comm networks refuseing life and death just taking my money

  16. L.... H....

    And alexandeers are now the fallen egyptians and are fight the mayans

  17. L.... H....

    Angel dust loki lyrea octavisus in lggl my ca first then and bells tookmy idendity and independence pay lost several to alex and deervs

  18. L.... H....

    Bar tell nee

  19. L.... H....

    Weres v and b h azreal

  20. L.... H....

    Did you

  21. d.... t....

    One of the only songs I enjoy hearing Donna in :)

  22. M.... F....

    One of the dead's best studio album.. Even Donna sounds good no cackling.. Yea I'm a deadhead.🔤😀🐟🐡

  23. S.... W....

    Received guitar lessons from Bob Torres in Franklin, MA 0t038 in early
    1990's. He went away. I was abducted and raped. my ssn was 7-7-7. Name's
    Trevor. Reyes'd by a subsitute father, Wan Berg. I was extorted. They
    built a babylon tower. Wasn't able to articulate the gravity of what
    happened to me for a quarter century. They made sure I was damaged and
    severely injured enough to utilize insurance that they could bite from.
    They spelt a crypt. A crippled child. "You'd think something like that
    would've had to have been kept in a vault." @t

  24. M.... A....

    That's RIGHT, `The M[I]{{{C}}} Never, EVER, will EVER STOP!! WE ARE JEHOVAH'S CHOIR OVERCOMERS! I'm shooting you `The Look, "LET'S GO!"
    <<💫^💫>>

  25. S.... W....

    if i made it difficult for you you can go fuck yourself...

  26. S.... W....

    the abuse it never stopped... 

    2d
    “Because he let the entire world press upon him. For instance? Well, for instance, what it means to be a man. In a city. In a century. In transition. In a mass. Transformed by science. Under organized power. Subject to tremendous controls. In a condition caused by mechanization. After the late failure of radical hopes. In a society that was no community and devalued the person.Owing to the multiplied power of numbers which made the self negligible. Which spent military billions against foreign enemies but would not pay for order at home. Which permitted savagery and barbarism in its own great cities. At the same time, the pressure of human millions who have discovered what concerted efforts and thoughts can do.”

    ― Saul Bellow

  27. S.... H....

    The saxophone at the end always gives me that image of the GD animals marching away into the night playing their instruments ❤️ my favourite song ❤️

  28. E.... J....

    Fa get Abit it aboutl

  29. O.... R....

    The greatest thing about being a dead head is we'll always be one >:} Steal yo face!

  30. e.... a....

    Why the hell is donna such an underrated voice

  31. a.... s....

    This song is amazing on acid.

  32. J.... G....

    While the music plays the band
    I love these lines. In another song, scarlet begonias, they say "well the sky was yellow and the sun was blue." Just...way to go,man. Good shit.

  33. G.... S....

    Happy birthday, Jerry. Never enough words to ever thank you 😀 💖 🎵🎶🎶🎶🎵🎵

  34. s.... ....

    Everybody’s Dancing

  35. W.... R....

    first album is clearly the best

  36. J.... L....

    My next tattoo will be the dancin bear cause im a dead fan

  37. Z.... J....

    “They’re a band beyond description, like Jehovah’s favorite choir. People joining hand in hand, while the music plays the band, Lord they’re setting us on fire.”

  38. C.... E....

    It’s funny they knew/know who our Creator is. JEHOVAH GOD, ALL POWERFUL!! Oh no here he comes!!!! WATCH OUT! Www.JW.org

  39. J.... t....

    The transition at 3:38 ❤

  40. J.... H....

    There a band beyond description, like JEHOVAH'S favorite choir. Oh yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  41. j.... k....

    the band beyond description maybe the 27 club those other ones now including jerry now :( shiva likes the song

  42. A.... ....

    That lick at 2:47 began my deadhead journey

  43. L.... B....

    RIP, John Perry Barlow.

  44. B.... O....

    My favorite GDead song. Couldn't remember the name of it but we used to play this album back in the mid 70's and this was my favorite song by them ever. I just typed in the youtube box 'there's mosquitoes on the river' and the song came up.

    B.... O....

    mine too!

  45. T.... T....

    rip john perry barlow may the four winds blow you safely home

  46. S.... M....

    RIP John Barlow, forever Grateful

  47. A.... W....

    Awesome music!

  48. R.... B....

    There is a Thai restaurant that his this on their background sound track. No kidding.

  49. B.... S....

    Who we am?

  50. i.... ....

    They're a band beyond description

    i.... ....

    iLthyf
    like Jehovas favorite choir!

  51. J.... W....

    ( ~) ; - }

  52. M.... R....

    Play that funky bass phil

  53. E.... w....

    the following user camera IP addresses of all-😈👹👹😦😵

  54. C.... ....

    As much as I like Jerry, most of my favorite Dead tunes, with some notable exceptions, are Bobby tunes.

  55. S.... Z....

    They would always kill this in concert. It was like they were on a mission to annilhilate disco, which had taken over music in the 70s. The Dead prevailed and the band plays on today.

  56. D.... N....

    Generalissimo Franco died, I got incarcerated in 2 nut houses in Morocco , thanks to my Dad I returned home and this Album came out. God works in wondrous ways his duties to perform.

  57. J.... V....

    "The Music Never Stopped" by the Grateful Dead (from the album "Blues for Allah", 1975)
    https://youtu.be/bQyci8_54gU?list=PLzKW2EYXw-tdCcZgVtXJUwwdC8EWi1gkP
    Lyrics:
    There's mosquitoes on the river.
    Fish are rising up like birds.
    It's been hot for seven weeks now,
    Too hot to even speak now.
    Did you hear what I just heard?
    Say, it might have been a fiddle,
    Or it could have been the wind.
    But there seems to be a beat, now.
    I can feel it in my feet, now.
    Listen, here it comes again!
    There's a band out on the highway.
    They're high-steppin' into town.
    They're a rainbow full of sound.
    It's fireworks, calliopes and clowns --
    Everybody's dancing.
    Come on, children. Come on, children,
    Come on clap your hands.
    Sun went down in honey.
    Moon came up in wine.
    Stars were spinnin' dizzy,
    Lord, the band kept us so busy
    We forgot about the time.
    They're a band beyond description
    Like Jehovah's favorite choir.
    People joinin' hand in hand
    While the music plays the band.
    Lord, they're setting us on fire.
    Crazy rooster crowin' midnight.
    Balls of lightning roll along.
    Old men sing about their dreams.
    Women laugh and children scream,
    And the band keeps playin' on.
    Keep on dancin' through to daylight.
    Greet the morning air with song.
    No one's noticed, but the band's all packed and gone.
    Was it ever here at all?
    But they keep on dancing.
    C'mon, children. C'mon, children,
    Come on clap your hands.
    Well, the cool breeze came on Tuesday,
    And the corn's a bumper crop.
    The fields are full of dancing,
    Full of singing and romancing,
    'Cause the music never stopped.

  58. P.... J....

    The Dead always make me smile, smile, smile : )

  59. D.... S....

    This song reminds me of this passage of Shakespeare; literate and smart as these guys were, I have no doubt they drew on it for inspiration:

    "Where should this music be? I' th' air or th' earth?
    It sounds no more, and sure, it waits upon
    Some god o' th' island. Sitting on a bank,
    Weeping again the king my father’s wrack,
    This music crept by me upon the waters,
    Allaying both their fury and my passion
    With its sweet air. Thence I have followed it,
    Or it hath drawn me rather. But ’tis gone.
    No, it begins again."

    Ferdinand, "The Tempest," Act. 1, Scene 2

  60. Z.... J....

    Sun went down in honey
    And the moon came up in wine
    you know the stars were spinnin dizzy
    Lord the band kept us so busy
    We forgot about the time

  61. K.... T....

    Two of them went to my high school.

  62. P.... C....

    Great is Grateful Dead

  63. W.... G....

    This song always takes me back to the hot Georgia summer nights. Some cold beers and some smoke. Good times.

  64. H.... M....

    New fan yet forever fan now

  65. M.... ....

    loved seeing this live! fun to dance to.✌❤☇

  66. N.... S....

    best band to listen to when on lsd

    N.... S....

    and and and MUSHROOMS
    tasty little bastards

  67. R.... R....

    I saw my first dead concert at English town NJ in 77 , the best experience in my life

    R.... R....

    Richard Reno mine was buckeye lake 87.

  68. C.... W....

    Donna sang jerry smiled birdies dived

    C.... W....

    Cathy White all was right in the world

  69. Z.... R....

    Melted Milk

    https://play.spotify.com/user/1240943803/playlist/3asSGPtrG4HM3t0aiEIPVX

    This is a collaborative playlist I keep with a few friends, give it a look, mostly classic rock, folk, psychedelic rock, funk, alternative, prog/experimental rock, bluegrass, and garage rock

    Z.... R....

    Zach Remijas , thanks for sharing, brother.

  70. S.... N....

    I really wish I could find the saxophone sheet music for this...

  71. j.... ....

    Soooooooooo miss this music! There is nothing like it anymore :(

  72. K.... W....

    I fucking love Bob, too.

  73. S.... ....

    THANK GOD MY BROTHER TOLD ME THE NAME OF THIS SONG

  74. j.... f....

    Bobby is the Best! The music Never STOPS !!!!

  75. b.... ....

    I love the sax in this song, especially near the end

  76. J.... H....

    I fucking love when Jerry plays that lick at the beginning!!!!

    J.... H....

    Joey Houle how bout that outro solo!?! So good

    J.... H....

    It's beyond amazing...Wish it was longer...Live versions solve that issue!

  77. J.... 7....

    i fucin love bob

  78. J.... 7....

    i fucking love bob

    J.... 7....

    Jesse Robert how live is bob

  79. J.... 7....

    i fucking love bob

  80. m.... l....

    One of my favorite dead songs

  81. D.... ....

    Did you hear what I just heard?

    D.... ....

    DeAdNKiCkIn may have been the fiddle....

  82. T.... S....

    We went to the concert. That's great.

  83. B.... M....

    Amazing !!

  84. F.... G....

    Very hippie Dead Head song. The sax solo sounds like the guy from SNL, but the album
    credits Steven Schuster. He is from the SF Bay area has worked with The Dead, Jeff. Airplane,
    Quicksilver ...

    F.... G....

    +Raelspark I see I am not the only one who did the research, lol

  85. m.... ....

    sax (and flute on other cuts): Steven Schuster

  86. B.... C....

    Just spent 3 weeks in Jamaica. The dead blared out of my room 99% of the time. God bless the Dead!

  87. m.... l....

    Grayson D how old are you man cus im 17 and i love the dead

  88. C.... S....

    entered Cashbox Oct 18, 1975

  89. t.... ....

    Even directly from the album, why does this sound so muffled?

  90. G.... D....

    The thing that i love about being a young Dead fan is I learn a new great song everyday

    G.... D....

    for YEARS

    G.... D....

    there is a downside though, we cant go see them live

    G.... D....

    @Tom Monsey there's dead & co. though! John Mayer is an amazing guitarist. I've seen them twice and i'm 13

    G.... D....

    Just turned 18 and can completely relate

    G.... D....

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  91. I.... M....

    Did you hear what I just heard?

    I.... M....

    No hear comes again

  92. 4.... ....

    A Slim Jackson: Keith and Donna Godchaux  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awNEEU9mKp4

  93. 4.... ....

    @slim Jackson Donna Godchaux sings harmony on this song

    4.... ....

    Thanks for laying the righteous truth on us bud!:D

    4.... ....

    Yeah -- Donna Godchaux. Miss her since she was kicked out of the band. Keith too. It's great to hear her on those older tunes. Thank God that we can still her those great songs.

  94. Y.... G....

    Such a chill jam

  95. B.... S....

    Who's on sax here?

  96. J.... L....

    The best

  97. M.... ....

    who's the girl in this song? i love that voice

    M.... ....

    Donna jean!

    M.... ....

    Donna Godchaux

    M.... ....

    Maximus_Crotchrocket i love her voice.

    M.... ....

    Badbad Manly Keith was married to Donna and Keith was killed due to injuries of a car accident

    M.... ....

    Maximus_Crotchrocket donna gene gacho

  98. T.... G....

    Such a groovy tune by Bobby, love it.