Subject:      BEAUTY OF MY DREAMS - lyrics, etc.
From:         benjy eisen <benji@ezonline.com>
Date:         1997/02/28
Message-Id:   <5f7qvr$fir@agate.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups:   rec.music.phish
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(Yes, of *my* dreams too...)

  For some reason I was expecting this tune to be a "mellow bluegrass"
tune, if there is such a thing.  I guess since the first setlists from
Cologne mislabeled it as "Mid-Highway Blues" I was expecting something
more along those lines; something similar to the style of Long Journey
Home, Blue and Lonesome, Nellie Cane, Old Home Place.  Instead this is
more akin to Uncle Penn, and runs at the same high-powered full-throttle
breakneck pace.

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BEAUTY OF MY DREAMS  (transcribed from 2/16/97 Cologne, GER)

One day I met the beauty of my dreams
Such pretty eyes, you know (lyric flub...) it seems
Long hair that flowed down behind
I had it all, you know I was so blind

I wound up on her side of town
and light and music all around
I gazed into her eyes and she in mine
She had me in a trance it was so fine

Now I cry cry cry
I can't get over her though I try
I'm blue blue blue
Should've known she never could be true

(Page solo!)

Well the fun didn't last for very long
I found her house, (some lady?) said your wrong
The girl you seek don't live here anymore
We all knew the pain that was in store
Now all I have is a picture and a frame
She disappeared the same way she came
She made a wreck of me and I find
I'm outside, you're always on my mind

Now I cry cry cry
I can't get over her although I try
I'm blue blue blue
I should've know that she never could be true

(Trey solo!)

Now I cry cry cry
I can't get over her 'though I try
I'm blue blue blue
I should've known she never could be true
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  Well, YEEHAW!!!  This one sure is one of 'em country fried
high-powered "El Rodeo" hoedowns!  I'm impressed by how tight they were
with it, considering it was a breakout and all...apart from an early
near-lyric-flub, all the notes were hit clearly, etc.
  I'm looking forward to seeing this one live, especially in the slots
where Uncle Penn, Paul & Silas, Rocky Top, Poor Heart and My Sweet One
go...this one fits right in with those.
  The vocal melody is **very** Johnny Cash - similar to "Big
River" or "I Walk The Line" meets the music of Bill Monroe's Bluegrass
Boys.  Fun!!

Walk with light my friends,
Benjy