Sundays Tunes on a Saturday! «Casey Jones»

Well, this one takes me back to the ninth grade! Wow! Getting the first drags…did I say drags?…of the seventies! Since I was more into Bowie, Beatles, Stones and other British bands, I think I first heard of The Grateful Dead…and this song…back in 1971 and loved it! I had just gotten a new guitar and I immediately learned this one! Of course I wasn’t riding that train, and I wasn’t high on cocaine, (a drug I have never touched – don’t do drugs, drugs be bad), but I did get to like The Grateful Dead, although I was way too young to be a Dead Head…

So here is my first tune for Sundays Tunes (of course on played on Saturday):

«Casey Jones» was played in every Dead concert from 1969 to 1974, a total of 300 times! It was written by Jerry Garcia (music) and lyrics by Robert Hunter.