"Easy Wind" genre: Blues Cover Songs
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	this is the Hunter-Garcia classic. It starts with a vamp, then a vocal, uptempo section, followed by a bridge, with a swift return to the original melody. From there it goes into a jam, which takes a surprising turn before easing back in to the bridge for a closing.
	Credits: written by Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia, Ice Nine Publishing. Used by permission
	Story Behind the Song It took me a long time to like this song. I was always attracted to its raw energy, but I used to fault it for not being very cosmic. I have come to appreciate it as being cosmically uncosmic--an expression of the great discontented yelp of the working class, the inevitable dissatisfaction of the unredeemed human state. Lyrics I been ballin' a shiny black steel jackhammer been chippin' up rocks on the Great Highway I'll live five years if I take my time Ballin' that jack and drinkin' my wine Yes I will I been chippin' them rocks from dawn till doom while my rider hide my bottle in the other room Yes she do Doctor say I better stop ballin' that jack If I live five years I''m gonna bust my back yes I will Cause there's an Easy Wind Cross the bayou today And there's a whole lot of women, mama. Out in red on the street today And the river keeps a-tallkin' but you never heard a word it said Gotta find a woman be good to me won't hide my likker try and serve me tea no she won't 'cause I'm a stone-jack baller and my heart is true and I'll give everything that I got to you yes I will

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