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Terrapin Lady With A Fan Lyric by Grateful Dead

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Artist Grateful Dead (20 albums, 2313 songs)
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Terrapin Lady With A Fan Lyric

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Terrapin: Lady With a Fan
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Let my inspiration flow in token rhyme
suggesting rhythm that will not forsake me
til my tale is told and done

While the firelight's aglow
strange shadows from the flames will grow
til things we've never seen will seem familiar

Shadows of the sailor forming
winds both foul and fair all swarm
down in Carlisle he loved a lady many years ago

Here beside him stands a man
a soldier from the looks of him
who came through many fights but lost at love

While the storyteller speaks
a door within the fire creaks
suddenly flies open and a girl is standing there

Eyes alight with glowing hair
all that fancy paints as fair
she takes her fan and throws it in the lion's den

Which of you to gain me, tell
will risk uncertain pains of hell
I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance

The sailor gave at least a try
the soldier being much too wise
strategy was his strength and not disaster

The sailor coming out again
the lady fairly lept at him
that's how it stands today
you decide if he was wise

The storyteller makes no choice
soon you will not hear his voice
his job is to shed light
and not to master

Since the end is never told
we pay the teller off in gold
in hopes he will come back
but he can not be bought or sold





Songs in this album

  1. All Songs
  2. Aiko Aiko
  3. Ain't It Crazy (The Rub)
  4. Ain't Superstitious (Meet Me on the Bottom)
  5. Alabama Getaway
  6. All Over Now
  7. Alligator
  8. Althea
  9. And We Bid You Goodnight
  10. At the Siding
  11. Attics Of My Life
  12. Babe, It Ain't No Lie
  13. Baby, What Do You Want Me To Do
  14. Ballad of Casey Jones
  15. Bear Tracks
  16. Beat It On Down The Line
  17. Bertha
  18. Big Boss Man
  19. Big Boy Pete
  20. Big Railroad Blues
  21. Big River
  22. Bird Song
  23. Black Peter
  24. Black Throated Wind
  25. Blues For Allah
  26. Bo Diddley
  27. Bondi Pier
  28. Born Cross Eyed
  29. Box Of Rain
  30. Boys in the Barroom
  31. Breadbox
  32. Bring Me My Shotgun
  33. Brokedown Palace
  34. Brother Esau
  35. Brown Eyed Women
  36. Built To Last (cont.)
  37. C. C. Rider
  38. Can't Come Down
  39. Candyman
  40. Casey Jones
  41. Cassidy
  42. Catfish John
  43. Cats Under the Stars
  44. China Cat Sunflower
  45. China Doll
  46. Chinatown Shuffle
  47. Cocaine
  48. Cocaine Habit Blues
  49. Cold Jordan
  50. Cold Rain And Snow
  51. Comes A Time
  52. Confusion Prince
  53. Cosmic Charlie
  54. Crazy Fingers
  55. Cream Puff War
  56. Cryptical Envelopment
  57. Cumberland Blues
  58. Dark Star
  59. Day Job
  60. Day Tripper
  61. Deal
  62. Dear Mr. Fantasy
  63. Dear Prudence
  64. Death Dont Have No Mercy
  65. Desolation Row
  66. Dire Wolf
  67. Doin That Rag
  68. Don't Need Love
  69. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
  70. Drink Up and Go Home
  71. Duprees Diamond Blues
  72. Early Morning Rain
  73. Easy Wind
  74. El Paso
  75. El Paso...
  76. Empty Pages
  77. Eyes Of The World
  78. Fire On The Mountain
  79. Forever Young
  80. France
  81. Franklins Tower
  82. Friend Of The Devil
  83. From The Heart Of Me
  84. Get Back
  85. Gimme Some Lovin'
  86. Gloria
  87. Goin Down The Road Feelin Bad
  88. Gomorrah
  89. Good Lovin
  90. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
  91. Goodnight Irene
  92. Greatest Story Ever Told
  93. Green, Green Grass of Home
  94. He Was A Friend of Mine
  95. Heaven Help The Fool
  96. Help On The Way
  97. Henry
  98. Here Comes Sunshine
  99. Hes Gone
  100. Hey Little One
  101. High Heeled Sneakers
  102. High Time
  103. Hitch Hiking Woman
  104. How Long Blues
  105. How Sweet It Is
  106. Hully Gully
  107. Hurts Me Too
  108. I Believe
  109. I Hear A Voice Calling
  110. I Just Wanna Make Love To You
  111. I Know You Rider
  112. I Need A Miracle
  113. I Saw Her Standing There
  114. I Second That Emotion
  115. I Wash My Hands
  116. I'll Take A Melody
  117. I'm A Hog For You
  118. If I Had The World To Give
  119. Ill Take A Melody
  120. It Must Have Been The Roses
  121. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
  122. It's A Man's World
  123. It's All Over Now Baby Blue
  124. Its All Over Now
  125. Jack Straw
  126. Jack-A-Roe
  127. Johnny B Goode
  128. K. C. Road
  129. Kansas City
  130. Keep On Growing
  131. King Bee
  132. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
  133. Lady With a Fan
  134. Last Train to Jacksonville
  135. Lazy Lightnin'
  136. Lazy Lightning
  137. Let It Rock
  138. Let Me In 83968
  139. Let Me Sing Your Blues Away
  140. Lindy
  141. Little Red Rooster
  142. Little Sadie
  143. Little Star ?
  144. Logger Song
  145. Long Black Limousine
  146. Looks Like Rain
  147. Loose Lucy
  148. Loser
  149. Louie, Louie
  150. Love in the Afternoon
  151. Mama Tried
  152. Man Smart, Women Smarter
  153. Mason's Children
  154. Maybe You Know
  155. Me And Bob
  156. Me And My Uncle
  157. Mercy of a Fool
  158. Mexicali Blues
  159. Midnight Hour
  160. Midnight Moonlight
  161. Might As Well
  162. Mission in the Rain
  163. Mississippi Halfstep Uptown Toodeloo
  164. Mister Charlie
  165. Money Money
  166. Morning Dew
  167. Mountains Of The Moon
  168. My Baby
  169. Mystery Train
  170. Never Trust A Woman
  171. New New Minglewood Blues
  172. New Orleans
  173. New Potato Caboose
  174. New Speedway Boogie
  175. New Speedway Boogie Fixed
  176. Next Time You See Me
  177. No Tomorrow
  178. Nobody's Fault But Mine
  179. Not Fade Away
  180. Oakie From Muskogee
  181. Oh Boy
  182. One More Saturday Night
  183. One Thing To Try
  184. Operator
  185. Palm Sunday
  186. Passenger
  187. Peggy-O
  188. Playing In The Band
  189. Positively 4th Street
  190. Pretty Peggy-O
  191. Pride Of Cucamonga
  192. Promised Land
  193. Promontory Rider
  194. Queen Of Santa Fe I
  195. Queen Of Santa Fe II (Poor Michael Went Down)
  196. Quin The Eskimo
  197. Quodlibet for Tenderfeet
  198. Race Is On
  199. Rain
  200. Ramble On Rose
  201. Revolution
  202. Revolutionary Hamstrung Blues
  203. Rhapsody In Red
  204. Ripple
  205. Road Runner
  206. Rockin' Pneumonia
  207. Rosemary
  208. Round And Round
  209. Row Jimmy
  210. Rubin and Cherise
  211. Run for the Roses
  212. Run, Rudolph Run
  213. Samson And Delilah
  214. Satisfaction
  215. Save the Whales
  216. Sawmill
  217. Scarlet Begonias
  218. Searchin'
  219. Shakedown Street
  220. She Belongs To Me
  221. She's Mine
  222. Ship Of Fools
  223. Silver Threads and Golden Needles
  224. Simple Twist Of Fate
  225. Sing Me Back Home
  226. Sitting In Limbo
  227. Sitting On Top Of The World
  228. So Far From Me
  229. St Stephen
  230. Stagger Lee
  231. Stealin
  232. Stella Blue
  233. Sugar Magnolia
  234. Sugaree
  235. Sunrise
  236. Supplication
  237. Swing Low Sweet Chariot
  238. Tangled Up In Blue
  239. Tell Mama
  240. Tennesee Jed
  241. Terrapin
  242. Terrapin Lady With A Fan
  243. Terrapin Station
  244. That's All Right, Mama
  245. Thats It For The Other One
  246. The Eleven
  247. The Golden Road
  248. The Harder They Come
  249. The Loser
  250. The Music Never Stopped
  251. The Night They Drove Ole Dixie Down
  252. The Same Thing
  253. The Weight
  254. The Wheel
  255. What Will You Raise
  256. Wharf Rat
  257. Werewolves of London
  258. Weather Report Suite Ii
  259. Weather Report Suite I
  260. Wave That Flag
  261. Wang Dang Doodle
  262. Walking the Dog
  263. Walking Blues
  264. Whats Become Of The Baby
  265. When I Paint My Masterpiece
  266. Youngblood
  267. You Win Again
  268. You Don't Have To Ask
  269. You Ain't Woman Enough To Take My Man
  270. Yellow Moon
  271. Wining Boy Blues
  272. Willie and the Hand Jive
  273. Why Don't We Do It In The Road
  274. Who Do You Love
  275. Walk in the Sunshine
  276. Walk in the Sun
  277. Tore Up Over You
  278. Tomorrow Is Forever
  279. Tom Thumb Blues
  280. Tom Dooley
  281. To Lay Me Down
  282. Til The Morning Comes
  283. Throwing Stones
  284. This Time Forever
  285. Truckin
  286. Turn On Your Love Light
  287. Two Souls in Communion
  288. Visions of Johanna
  289. Viola Lee Blues
  290. Valerie
  291. Us Blues
  292. Uncle Johns Band
  293. Unbroken Chain
  294. U S Blues
  295. Two Women
  296. They Love Each Other

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