St. Stephen-Grateful Dead

[01:21.25]Saint Stephen with a rose in and out of the garden he goes [01:26.88]Country garden in the wind and the rain [01:29.44]Wherever he goes the people all complain [01:32.50] [01:43.80]Stephen prospered in his time well he may and he may decline [01:49.07]Did it matter does it now [01:51.77]Stephen would answer if he only knew how [01:54.52] [02:08.06]Wishing well with a golden bell bucket hanging clear to hell [02:13.63]Hell half way twixt now and then [02:16.39]Stephen fill it up and lower down and lower down again [02:22.35] [02:29.39]Lady finger dipped in moonlight [02:36.68]Writing what for across the morning sky [02:44.17]Sunlight splatters dawn with answer [02:51.94]Darkness shrugs and bids the day goodbye [02:59.04]Speeding arrow sharp and narrow [03:08.25]What a lot of fleeting matters you have spurned [03:16.81]Several seasons with their treasons [03:25.27]Wrap the babe in scarlet colors call it your own [03:32.27] [03:43.66]Did he doubt or did he try [03:46.09]Answers aplenty in the bye and bye [03:48.90]Talk about your plenty talk about your ills [03:51.64]One man gathers what another man spills [03:55.99] [04:45.69]Saint Stephen will remain all he's lost he shall regain [04:51.31]Seashore washed by the suds and foam [04:53.99]Been here so long he's got to calling it home [04:57.34]Fortune comes a crawling calliope woman [05:02.91]Spinning that curious sense of your own [05:08.61]Can you answer [05:11.45]Yes I can [05:14.26]But what would be the answer to the answer man [05:19.60] [05:25.52]High green chilly winds and windy [05:27.95]Vines in loops around the twisted [05:30.96]Shafts of lavender they're crawling to the sun [05:38.12]Wonder who will water all the children of the [05:42.48]Garden when they sigh about [05:44.59]The barren lack of rain and droop so hungry neath the sky [05:51.26]Haaaaaaa [05:53.98] [06:00.34]Underfoot the ground is patched with arms of ivy wrapped [06:06.15]Around the manzanita stark and shiny in the breeze [06:13.15]William Tell has stretched his bow til it won't stretch [06:18.65]No furthermore it require a change hasn't come before [06:24.54]