>In <[log in to unmask]> Adrienne DeArmas
><[log in to unmask]> writes:
>>
>>In a message dated 96-06-15 17:22:29 EDT, [log in to unmask] (J.
>McCrain)
>>writes:
>>
>><< The Old Homestead Parlour House museum should be congratulated for
>the
>> wonderful job they have done presenting this rather "touchy" subject.
>> (Pun intended!)  When you go to Cripple Creek, don't forget to go to
>the
>> whore house!  I did! >>
>>
>>Any relation to the wonderful song (by whom I do not know) which says,
>"Up on
>>Cripple Creek, she sends me; If I spring a leak, she mends me; I don't
>have
>>to speak and she defends me; a trucker's dream if I ever did see one"?
>
>...that's the Greatful Dead who performed it.
>
>Mark Shanks
>"I can name that tune in...."


No, no, no. It was the Band, not the Grateful Dead, that recorded that
song. At least, after seeing the Dead 41 times, I never heard them play
Cripple Creek.

On the other hand, the Grateful Dead really was the only band, if you know
what I mean.

R.I.P. Jerry.

John Arnold
Public Information Officer
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Albuquerque
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"Sometimes the light's all shining on me. Other times I can barely see.
Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it's been."