Celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the most popular and enduring band ever Even the most hardcore Deadheads will be impressed by this obsessively complete look at the Grateful Dead's lyrics iPublishersi iWeeklyi. piThe Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyricsi is an authoritative text, providing standard versions of all the original songs you thought you knew forwards and backwards. These are some of the best-loved songs in the modern American songbook. They are hummed and spoken among thousands as counterculture code and recorded by musicians of all stripes for their inimitable singability and obscure accessibility. How do they do all this To provide a context for this formidable body of work, of which his part is primary, Robert Hunter has written a foreword that goes to the heart of the matter. And the annotations on sources provide a gloss on the lyrics, which goes to the roots of Western culture as they are incorporated into them. pAn avid Grateful Dead concertgoer for more than