Cosmic Charlie
Details
- Band
- The Grateful Dead
- Play count
- 45
- First played
- 1968-10-08 — The Matrix
Lyrics
Cosmic Charlie, "How do you do?"
Truckin' in style along the avenue
Dum de dum de doodley do
Go on home your mama's calling you
Kalico, kahlia tell me the news
Calamity's waitin' for the way to get to her
Rosy red and electric blue, I bought you
A paddle for your paper canoe
Say you'll come back, when you can
Whenever your airplane happens to land
Maybe I'll be back here too
It all depends on, what's with you
Hung up waiting for a windy day
Kite on ice, since the first of February
Mama keeps saying that, the wind might blow
But standing here I say, I just don't know
New ones coming as the old ones go
Every thing's moving here, but much too slow now
A little bit quicker and we might have time
To say "How do you do?" before we left behind
Calliope wail like a seaside zoo
The very last lately inquired about you
It's really very one or two
The first you wanted, the last I knew
I just wonder, if you shouldn't feel
Less concerned about the people unreal
The very first word is "How do you do?"
But last "Go home your mama's calling you"
Calling you, calling you, calling you, calling you
Go on home your mama's callin' you
Go on home your mama's callin' you
Go on home your mama's callin' you
Go on home your mama's callin' you
Links
Performances
| Date | Venue | Location | Set | # | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976-09-25 | Capital Centre | Landover, MD | Set 2: | 15 | |
| 1976-07-16 | Orpheum Theatre | San Francisco, California | Set 2: | 13 | |
| 1976-06-23 | Tower Theatre | Upper Darby, Pennsylvania | Set 2: | 18 | — |
| 1976-06-23 | Tower Theater | Upper Darby, Pennsylvania | Set 2 | 16 | |
| 1976-06-19 | Capitol Theatre | Passaic, New Jersey | Set 2: | 17 | |
| 1976-06-14 | Beacon Theatre | New York | Set 2: | 19 | |
| 1976-06-04 | Paramount Theatre | Portland, Oregon | Set 2: | 19 | |
| 1971-01-21 | Freeborn Hall | Davis, California | — | 11 | — |
| 1971-01-21 | Freeborn Hall / University of California | Davis, California | Set 2 | 15 | |
| 1970-11-21 | Boston University | Boston, MA | — | 1 | — |
| 1970-11-21 | Sargent Gym / Boston University | Boston, MA | Set 1 | 9 | |
| 1970-10-31 | Gymnasium / SUNY | Stony Brook, New York | Set 2 | 18 | |
| 1970-07-14 | Euphoria Ballroom | San Rafael, California | Set 2 | 17 | |
| 1970-07-09 | Fillmore East | New York | Set 2 | 10 | |
| 1970-06-24 | Capitol Theatre | Port Chester, New York | Set 2 | 13 | |
| 1970-06-07 | Fillmore West | San Francisco, California | Set 2 | 11 | |
| 1970-05-15 | Fillmore East | New York | Set 2 | 12 | |
| 1970-05-07 | Dupont Gymnasium / Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | Set 2 | 18 | |
| 1970-05-02 | West Gym / Harpur College | Binghamton, New York | Set 2 | 13 | |
| 1970-04-03 | Armory Fieldhouse / University of Cincinnati | Cincinnati, Ohio | Set 3 | 13 | |
| 1970-01-30 | The Warehouse | New Orleans, LA | Set 1 | 15 | |
| 1970-01-16 | Springer's Inn | Portland, Oregon | Set 2 | 20 | |
| 1970-01-03 | Fillmore East | New York | Set 3 | 16 | |
| 1970-01-02 | Fillmore East | New York | Set 1 | 9 | |
| 1969-12-30 | Boston Tea Party | Boston, MA | Set 1 | 11 | |
| 1969-12-11 | Thelma Theater | Los Angeles, California | Set 2 | 26 | |
| 1969-12-10 | Thelma Theater | Los Angeles, California | Set 2 | 16 | |
| 1969-12-05 | Fillmore West | San Francisco, California | Set 1 | 10 | |
| 1969-11-15 | Lanai Theater | Crockett, California | Set 1 | 11 | |
| 1969-10-24 | Winterland Arena | San Francisco, California | Set 1 | 11 | |
| 1969-08-21 | Aqua Theatre | Seattle, WA | Set 1 | 15 | |
| 1969-06-21 | Fillmore East | New York | Set 1 | 8 | |
| 1969-06-08 | Fillmore West | San Francisco, California | Set 2 | 9 | |
| 1969-06-05 | Fillmore West | San Francisco, California | Set 1 | 5 | |
| 1969-05-31 | McArthur Court / University of Oregon | Eugene, Oregon | Set 2 | 11 | |
| 1969-05-30 | Springer's Inn | Portland, Oregon | Set 1 | 5 | |
| 1969-04-18 | Memorial Union Ballroom / Purdue University | LaFayette, New York | Set 1 | 10 | |
| 1969-04-05 | Avalon Ballroom | San Francisco, California | Set 2 | 6 | |
| 1969-03-01 | Fillmore West | San Francisco, California | Set 1 | 6 | |
| 1969-02-27 | Fillmore West | San Francisco, California | Encore | 11 | |
| 1969-02-15 | Electric Factory | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Set 2 | 12 | |
| 1969-02-11 | Fillmore East | New York | Encore | 13 | — |
| 1969-01-25 | Avalon Ballroom | San Francisco, California | Set 2 | 6 | |
| 1969-01-17 | Robertson Gym / University of California | Santa Barbara, California | Set 1 | 8 | |
| 1968-10-08 | The Matrix | United States | Set 1 | 2 |
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