So Many Roads
Lyrics by Robert Hunter
Music by Jerry Garcia

Thought I heard a blackird singing
Up on Bluebird Hill
Call me a whinin' boy if you will
Born where the sun don't shine
And I don't deny my name
Got no place to go, ain't that a shame?

Thought I heard that KC whistle
Moaning sweet and low
Thought I heard that KC when she blow
Down where the sun don't shine
Underneath the Kokomo
Whinin' boy got no place to go

So many roads I tell you
So many roads I know
So many roads, so many roads
Mountain high, river wide
So many roads to ride
So many roads, so many roads

Thought I heard a jug band playin'
"If you don't... who else will?"
From over on the far side of the hill
All I know the sun don't shine
And the rain refused to fall
And you don't seem to hear me when I call*

Wind inside and the wind outside
Tangled in the window blind
Tell me why you treat me so unkind
Down where the sun don't shine
Lonely and I call your name
No place left to go, ain't that a shame?

So many roads I tell you
New York to San Francisco
So many roads I know
All I want is one to take me home
From the high road to the low
So many roads I know
So many roads so many roads

From the land of the midnight sun
Where the ice blue roses grow
Along those roads of gold and silver snow
Howlin' wide or moaning low
So many roads I know
So many roads to ease my soul**

* 간혹.. 94년 6월 26일 공연의 경우, 'I don't seem to hear you when you call'로 바꿔 부르기도 했다.
** 간혹.. 사람들이 'So many roads tease my soul'로 오해하는 경우가 있다고 한다.

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어쩌다가 기타를 잡게 되었는가
곰곰히 생각했었는데.. 드디어 생각났다.

인생의 큰 반전이 두어번 있었다면,
하나는 중학교를 마치고 곧장 미국으로 넘어가
양키들과 어울리기 위해 농구공을 잡은 것,

다른 하나는 미술 공부를 하다가
스튜디오 구석에 있는 클래식 기타를 잡게 된
두 가지 사건이 아닐까..