"Horse Named Bill" lyrics - JERRY GARCIA AND DAVID GRISMAN

JERRY GARCIA AND DAVID GRISMAN
"Horse Named Bill"

I had a horse and his name was Bill
And when he ran, he couldn't stand still
He ran away one day
And also I ran with him

He ran so fast he could not stop
He ran into a barbershop
Fell exhaustionized - with his eye teeth
In the barber's left shoulder

I had a gal and her name was Daisy
When she sang, the cat went crazy
With deliriums - St. Vituses
And all kinds of cataleptics

One day she sang a song about
A man who turned himself inside out
And jumped into the river
He was so very sleepy

I'm going out in the woods next year
And shoot for beer and not for deer
Well, I am, well, I ain't
I'm a great sharpshootress

At shooting birds I am a beaut
There is no bird I cannot shoot
In the eye, in the ear, in the teeth
And in the fingers

I went up in a balloon so big
The people on Earth looked like a pig
Like a mouse, like a caddydid
Like flyses and like fleases

The balloon had turned up with its bottom side high
Fell on the wife of a country squire
She made a noise like a doghound
Like a steam whistle and like dynamite

What could you do in a case like that
What could you do but stamp on your hat
Or on your mother, on your toothbrush
And everything that's helpless