Alligator
Composer(s): Robert Hunter - Phil Lesh - Ron "Pigpen" McKernan
Performer(s): The Grateful Dead



Sleepy alligator in the noonday sun
Sleepin' by the river just like he usually done
Call for his whisky
He can call for his tea
Call all he wanta but he
can't call me

Oh no
I been there before
and I'm not comin' back around
there no more

Creepy alligator comin' all around the bend
Talkin' bout the times when we was mutual friends
I check my mem'ry
I check it quick yes I will
I check it runnin'
some old kind of trick

Oh no well I
been there before
and I ain't a comin' back around
there no more
no I'm not

Hung up waitin' for a windy day
Hung up waitin' for a windy day
Tear down the Fillmore
Gas the Avalon

Ridin' down the river in an old canoe
a bunch of bugs and an old tennis shoe
out of the river all ugly and green
the biggest old alligator that I've ever seen
teeth big and pointed and his eyes were buggin' out
contact the union, put the beggars to route
screamin' and yellin' and lickin' his chops
he never runs he just stumbles and hops
just out of prison on six dollars bail
mumblin at bitches and waggin' his tail

Alligator runnin' round my door 
Alligator runnin' round my door
Alligator runnin' round my door 
Alligator runnin' round my door

Alligator creepin' round the corner of my cabin door
He's comin' round to bother me some more