Grateful Dead & The Beach Boys "Okie From Muskogee" 4-27-71

http://www.DeadTix.info Rare Live Grateful Dead & The Beach Boys "Okie From Muskogee" 4-27-71 On April 27, 1971, The Grateful Dead played the Fillmore East in New York, and put on what I consider to be one of the greatest shows they did that entire year. In fact, the First Set recording of Bertha was the one used on their Skullfuck live album. (Overall, Im generally a 77 man, myself, although 1974 was also a good year.) But the real keen thing that happened on April 27 was the encore set, where the kings of the three-minute surfpop tune, The Beach Boys, came out and joined with the stoner jamband heroes. The encore set began with the classics Searchin and Riot in Cell Block #9, with the two bands playing together. Then the Dead stepped away and allowed the Beach Boys to play solo, which they did, on their two hits, Good Vibrations and I Get Around. Six minutes must have been just enough time to beam up, because the Dead came back, ready to jam on the Merle Haggard classic, Okie From Muskogee, and finally on the Chuck Berry classic, Johnny B. Goode. Okie From Muskogee Lyrics: Merle Haggard Music: Merle Haggard Only played once by the Grateful Dead, in a set jointly with the Beach Boys on 27 April 1971 at the Fillmore East. We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee We don't take our trips on LSD We don't our burn draft cards down on Main Street 'Cause we like living right and being free We don't make a party out of loving But we like holding hands and pitching wood We don't wear our hair all long and shaggy Like the hippies out in San Francisco do Chorus I'm proud to be an Okie from Muskogee A place where even squares can have a ball We still wave Old Glory down by the court house And white lightning's still the biggest thrill of all Leather boots are still in style for manly footwear Beads and roman sandals wont be seen And football's still the roughest thing on campus And the kids there still respect the college dean [chorus] [chorus] White lightning's still the biggest thrill of all In Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA