China Doll lyrics

Song information

Artist: Grateful Dead
Album: From The Mars Hotel

Lyrics

A pistol shot, at five o'clock, the bells of heaven ring
Tell me what you done it for, no I won't tell you a thing
Yesterday I begged you before I hit the ground
All I leave behind me is only what I found

If you can abide it, let the hurdy-gurdy play
Stranger ones have come by here before they flew away
I will not condemn you nor yet would I deny
I would ask the same of you, but failing, will not die

Take up your china doll, take up your china doll
It's only fractured and just a little nervous from the fall
La-la-la-la-la-la-la

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"From The Mars Hotel" album track list