"my foolish heart" was a song and movie from the 1940's...it was very popular and Robert Hunter surely would have known that song..... since both he and Jerry were 1940's kids, many of their tunes reference pop culture of that era....one of the things that make the dead so innovative is their updating of tired old classics mixed with biblical and literary references, as well as nursery rhymes- Jerry adds a nice melodic guitar riff between the verses.
"my foolish heart" was a song and movie from the 1940's...it was very popular and Robert Hunter surely would have known that song..... since both he and Jerry were 1940's kids, many of their tunes reference pop culture of that era....one of the things that make the dead so innovative is their updating of tired old classics mixed with biblical and literary references, as well as nursery rhymes- Jerry adds a nice melodic guitar riff between the verses.