The Grateful Dead — Alligator Live at Fillmore East NYC April 1971

[Verse 1] Sleepy alligator in the noonday sun Playing by the river just like he usually done Call for his whisky He can call for his tea Call all he want to now but he Can't call me [Chorus] Oh no, oh no I been there before Ain't coming back around There no more [Bridge] Hung up waiting for a windy day Hung up waiting for a windy day [Verse 2] Creepy alligator coming all around the bend Talking 'bout the times when we was mutual friends, oh no I check my memory now I check it quick, oh yes I will I check it running Some old kind of trick, my my [Chorus] Oh no well I Been there before And I ain't a coming back around Here no more, oh no [Verse 3] Riding down the river in an old canoe A bunch of bugs and an old tennis shoe Out of the river all ugly and green Came the biggest old alligator that I've ever seen Teeth big and pointed and his eyes were bugging out Contact the union, put the beggars to route Just out of prison on six dollars bail Mumbling at bitches and wagging his tail [Instrumental]