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Grateful Dead – Franklin’s Tower – Isolated Bass & Drums

Grateful Dead – Franklin’s Tower – Isolated Bass & Drums – bass and drums only. Published as a backing track for guitars, vocals, and other instruments. For use as a resource to help learn the bass and drums parts for “Franklin’s Tower”.

Grateful Dead - Franklin's Tower - Isolated Bass & Drums

Album Title: Blues for Allah
Release Date: September 1, 1975

~Album Tracks:

Side One

  1. Help on the Way
  2. Slipknot!
  3. Franklin’s Tower
  4. King Solomon’s Marbles
  5. Stronger than Dirt or Milkin’ the Turkey
  6. The Music Never Stopped

Side Two

  1. Crazy Fingers
  2. Sage & Spirit
  3. Blues for Allah
  4. Sand Castles & Glass Camels
  5. Unusual Occurrences in the Desert

~Grateful Dead:

  • Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
  • Donna Jean Godchaux – vocals
  • Keith Godchaux – keyboards, vocals
  • Mickey Hart – percussion, crickets
  • Bill Kreutzmann – drums, percussion
  • Phil Lesh – bass guitar
  • Bob Weir – guitar, vocals

~Franklin’s Tower Lyrics:

In another time’s forgotten space
Your eyes looked through your mother’s face
Wildflower seed on the sand and stone
May the four winds blow you safely home

Roll away, the dew
Roll away, roll away the dew
Roll away, roll away the dew
Roll away, roll away the dew

I’ll tell you where the four winds dwell
In Franklin’s tower there hangs a bell
It can ring, turn night to day
It can ring like fire when you lose your way

Roll away, the dew
Roll away, roll away the dew
Roll away, roll away the dew
Roll away, roll away the dew

God save the child who rings that bell
I may have one good ring baby, you can’t tell
One watch by night, one watch by day
If you get confused just listen to the music play

Some come to laugh their past away
Some come to make it just one more day
Whichever way your pleasure tends
If you plant ice you’re gonna harvest wind

Roll away, the dew
Roll away, roll away the dew
Roll away, roll away the dew
Roll away, roll away the dew

I’ll tell you where the four winds sleep
Like four lean hounds the lighthouse keep
Wildflower seed in the sand and wind
May the four winds blow you home again

Roll away, the dew
Roll away, roll away the dew
Roll away, roll away the dew
Roll away, roll away the dew

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