Stopped Lyrics - Grateful Dead

There's mosquitoes on the river 

Fish are rising up like birds 

It's been hot for seven weeks now 

Too hot to even speak now 

Did you hear what I just heard? 

Say, it might have been a fiddle 

Or it could have been the wind 

But there seems to be a beat now 

I can feel it in my feet now 

Listen here it comes again 

There's a band out on the highway 

They're high-stepping into town 

It's a rainbow full of sound 

It's fireworks, calliopes and clowns 

Everybody's dancing 

Come on children, come on children 

Come on clap your hands 

Sun went down in honey 

And the moon came up in wine 

You know stars were spinning dizzy 

Lord the band kept us so busy 

We forgot about the time 

They're a band beyond description 

Like Jehovah's favorite choir 

People joining hand in hand 

While the music plays the band 

Lord they're setting us on fire 

Crazy rooster crowing midnight 

Balls of lightning roll along 

Old men sing about their dreams 

Women laugh and children scream 

And the band keeps playing on 

Keep on dancing through to daylight 

Greet the morning air with song 

No one's noticed but the band's all packed and gone 

Was it ever here at all? 

But they kept on dancing 

Come on children, come on children 

Come on clap your hands 

Well the cool breeze came on Tuesday 

And the corn's a bumper crop 

And the fields are full of dancing 

Full of singing and romancing 

The music never stopped