This is about a man who shared some secret with a woman. Were they having an affair or had she pledged to marry him?
He went off to sea for 10 years.
When he returned she had already died and was placed in a mausoleum.
In old days since there was no embalming caskets were frequently made with a small pane of glass in them so people could see the dead but not smell them.
This fellow came back from the sea to find his love, dead.
There is one pane of glass in the window of the casket, but nobody is complaining and he tells whomever in the song has come upon him to come in and shut the door.
He then remarks that the ribbons and flowers in her hair are faded with time, and that she has been dead so long nobody comes around to view her anymore.
As the previous poster said laying her head in the roses was saying she died just like in the song he says that he would lay his head in the roses rather than reveal whatever she told him
This is probably one of my favorite Dead songs. The Dead were "Americana" before it was a genre, and Jerry truly loved a sad sweet song and Hunter wrote them for him.
How traditional, a man who lost his love and lingers at her casket even though she died years ago and her body has been corrupted.
This is about a man who shared some secret with a woman. Were they having an affair or had she pledged to marry him?
He went off to sea for 10 years.
When he returned she had already died and was placed in a mausoleum.
In old days since there was no embalming caskets were frequently made with a small pane of glass in them so people could see the dead but not smell them.
This fellow came back from the sea to find his love, dead.
There is one pane of glass in the window of the casket, but nobody is complaining and he tells whomever in the song has come upon him to come in and shut the door.
He then remarks that the ribbons and flowers in her hair are faded with time, and that she has been dead so long nobody comes around to view her anymore.
As the previous poster said laying her head in the roses was saying she died just like in the song he says that he would lay his head in the roses rather than reveal whatever she told him
This is probably one of my favorite Dead songs. The Dead were "Americana" before it was a genre, and Jerry truly loved a sad sweet song and Hunter wrote them for him.
How traditional, a man who lost his love and lingers at her casket even though she died years ago and her body has been corrupted.
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