Alligator Live at Fillmore East NYC April 1971 by The Grateful Dead Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Sleepy alligator in the noonday sun
Playing by the river just like he usually done
Call for his whisky
He can call for his tea
Call all he want to now but he
Can't call me

[Chorus]
Oh no, oh no
I been there before
Ain't coming back around
There no more

[Bridge]
Hung up waiting for a windy day
Hung up waiting for a windy day

[Verse 2]
Creepy alligator coming all around the bend
Talking 'bout the times when we was mutual friends, oh no
I check my memory now
I check it quick, oh yes I will
I check it running
Some old kind of trick, my my
[Chorus]
Oh no well I
Been there before
And I ain't a coming back around
Here no more, oh no

[Verse 3]
Riding down the river in an old canoe
A bunch of bugs and an old tennis shoe
Out of the river all ugly and green
Came the biggest old alligator that I've ever seen
Teeth big and pointed and his eyes were bugging out
Contact the union, put the beggars to route
Just out of prison on six dollars bail
Mumbling at bitches and wagging his tail

[Instrumental]