Been Down So Long
(Traditional)

Hard headed lover, won't you please let me stay all night.
If you just let me stay, I think everything's all right.
With my shoes in my pockets, eyes on the door,
Mama, won't you give me the key.

I been down so long it looks like up to me.
I can't stand moving but I don't like standing still.
The hole that I've been in looks more and more like a hill.
In a rowboat on the ocean, swept offshore, I started to feel all at sea.

I been down so long it looks like up to me.
The candyman is standing with his friends outside my door.
There's a hole in the circle and I'm falling through the floor.
Been told many times, but again my friend, The best things in life are free.
I been down so long it looks like up to me

You gotta have plans, please don't forget my name,
'Cause the hand that I got just won't let me win the game.
If I had plenty of time, I could turn you around.
It looks like I've started to see
I been down so long it looks like up to me.

*Grateful Dead 11/29/66 - 12/1/66