Written by Bob Weir and Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, "Jack Straw" technically falls into the category of murder ballad, as it tells the story of two train-jumping "ne’er-do-wells" (Jack and Shannon) on a rather dark journey across America:
We used to play for silver, now we play for lifeOne's for sport and one's for blood at the point of a knifeNow the die is shaken, now the die must fallThere ain't a winner in the game, he don't go home with allNot with all
Leavin' Texas, fourth day of JulySun so hot, the clouds so low, the eagles filled the skyCatch the Detroit Lightning out of Santa FeThe Great Northern out of Cheyenne, from sea to shining sea
“I don’t watch much TV, but one night I was home, it was late, and an old version of Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men came on," Weir explained in a 2007 interview with Uncut Magazine.
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As longtime Deadheads can attest, the line "we can share the women, we can share the wine" was always met with enthusiastic cheers in the audience at Grateful Dead concerts. But as Hunter told Blair Jackson, author of the book Goin' Down the Road, he wasn't particularly comfortable with the way fans reacted to those words; after all, they were written from the perspective of two fugitives living a rather questionable lifestyle.
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