The Grateful Dead — Alligator Live at Shrine Auditorium Los Angeles August 1968

[Verse 1] Sleepy alligator in the noonday sun Lying by the river just like he usually done, oh Lord Call for his whisky He can call for his tea Call all he want to But he can't call me [Chorus] Oh no Well, I been there before And I'm not coming back around There no more, oh no now [Instrumental Break] [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 I check my memory And I, I check it quick, oh yes I will I check it running Some old kind of trick, oh no [Chorus] Oh no Well, I been there before And I ain't a coming back around There no more No, I'm not [Bridge] Tear down the Fillmore Gas the Avalon [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 Screaming and yelling, he was licking his chops He never runs, he just stumbles and hops Just out of prison on six dollars bail Mumbling at bitches and wagging his tail [Instrumental]