Dead Songs in Depth

    
Sugar Magnolia (incl. Sunshine Daydream)
w: Hunter, Weir m: Weir
AGDL: http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/smag.html
LASF: http://www.whitegum.com/songfile/SUGAR1MG.HTM
  

    
Sugar Magnolia 
Lyrics: Robert Hunter/Bob Weir
Music: Bob Weir

Copyright Ice Nine Publishing; used by permission.

Sugar Magnolia, blossoms blooming
Heads all empty and I don't care
Saw my baby down by the river
Knew she'd have to come up soon for air

Sweet blossom, come on under the willow
We can have high times if you'll abide
We can discover the wonders of nature
Wading in the rushes down by the riverside

She's got everything delightful
She's got everything I need
Takes the wheel when I'm seeing double
Pays my ticket when I speed

She comes skimming through rays of violet
She can wade in a drop of dew
She don't come and I don't follow
Waits backstage while I sing to you

She can dance a Cajun rhythm
Jump like a Willys in four wheel drive
She's a summer love in the spring, fall and winter
She can make happy any man alive

Sugar Magnolia
Ringing that bluebell
Caught up in sunlight
Come on out singing and I'll walk you in the sunshine
Come on honey, come along with me

She's got everything delightful
She's got everything I need
A breeze in the pines and the sun and bright moonlight
Lazing in the sunlight, yes indeed

Sometimes when the cuckoo's crying
When the moon is half way down
Sometimes when the night is dying
I take me out and I wander around
I wander round

Sunshine daydream
Walking in the tall trees
Going where the wind goes
Blooming like a red rose
Breathing more freely
Ride out singing, I'll walk you in the morning sunshine
Sunshine daydream
Sunshine daydream
Walking in the sunshine
[etc]
  

    
Oops. It should be "Rolling in the rushes ..." not "Wading in the
rushes." Thanks to Dan Franzen for spotting this.
  

    

"Take a great notion
Rollin' like the ocean"

- Sunshine Daydream 3/26/72
  

    
No! Really? that's wonderful!
  

    
Posted on behalf of Brandon Lorenc:

I just got off the phone with a Willys collector and I asked him about
the entry for Sugar Mags
 
"When the Willy's jeep first came out, there was some type of
maneuver, or trick, that an experienced driver could do to make the
vehicle actually "leap", jump, or catch air, somehow."
 
Being a car guy this has always bothered me, I just couldn't fathom
how this would be possible and believe me I am not unimaginative :)
Anywho, he said he knows as much about these Willys as probably anyone
in the country (and I believe him) and he has never heard of such a
"maneuver". He thought it was likely because the original press release
materials from the US army for the Willys showed pics and video of 2
guys jumping over stuff, basically a typical off road thing that looks
super cool. Any way, I guess I will have to look at that Smithsonian
article when I have a chance b/c it sounds like urban legend stuff to
me :)
 
Thanks for being so cool.


Brandon Lorenc