D for the Dead

And D is for Dead and the Dead were dead as a doornail. And D is for Danny Fields and he’s the one who first gave them the D, they were bound to get one sooner or later and it was bound to be fitting when you consider them and the fourth letter of the alphabet having been stablemates all along. But who would’ve expected it to be at their triumphal first nite at Manhattan Center in New York, the Dead’s honorary home? Not me, I didn’t expect it, neither did Creem’s own Dave Marsh, who was on hand at the close of his tour of New York. But D is what they got, not an F, not a D-, not a D+, but a D on the nose'