Grateful Dead Version

East side West  side

Down in front of Casey’s old Brown wooden stoop

On a summer’s evening we formed a merry group.

Boys and girls together we would sing and waltz

While Tony played the organ on the side walks of New York.

East side West side

All around the town

The tots sung “ring a rosie “ “London Bridge is falling down.”

Boys and girls together me and Mamie O’Rourke.

Tipped the lights fantastic on the side walks ofNew York.

That’s where Johnny Casey, little Jimmie Crowe

Jakie Krause the Baker, who always had the dough

Pretty Nellie Shannon with a dude as light as cork

She first picked up the waltz step on the sidewalks of New York.

Things have changed since those times some are up in “G.”

Others they are wanderers but they feel just like me. 

They’d part with all they got,

could they once more walk

With their best girl and have a whirl on the side walks of New York.