Me And My Uncle

one of my co-workers asked me the other day... why does he kill is uncle at the end of the song.... and i was like.. i really dont know.. maybe he got all wrapped up in the cowboy life... can anyone else explain possible reasons?

 

let me see.........form what I hear his uncle just died and he did not kill him....I think.....

 

I thought his uncle just dies too. But I dont know.

 

I thought his uncle died, and he took all of his money and left the body by the side of the road.


i actually like some of the versions of that dead song....

I'm going to have to deal with it now.

 

it really does not say for sure whether he killed his uncle or if he just died, here is the last verse.........

"I love those cowboys, I love their gold,
I loved my uncle, God rest his soul,
Taught me good, Lord, Taught me all I know
Taught me so well, I grabbed that gold
And I left his dead ass there by the side of the road"

But I take it to me he did kill his uncle, just to have the gold for himself........

 

I thought that the cowboys killed him, but he was taught so well by his uncle that he didn't worry about sentiment or a funeral, he just grabbed the gold and ran.


Either way the uncle deserved to die for what he did to his second cousin twice removed.

 

i think thats it.

 

no he and and his uncle killed the cowboys to take the gold in the first place.......

 

I thought that his uncle just died, but it would make sense if he killed him for the gold....

I guess it's just one of those open interpretation things

 

putting "grabbed that gold" before "left his dead ass . . ." suggests that he did kill him.

Its a song about greed, plain and simple.

 

I agree....his uncle taught him "so well" how to be greedy that he kills him and steals the gold....

 

No I think his uncle taught him to just not look back and so after the battle with the cowboys.His uncle died and so he just ran awaywith the gold not even to burry his uncle. I never been able to figuer out the Dark Star lryics

 

Dark Star

Lyrics: Robert Hunter
Music: Garcia, Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir

Dark star crashes (note a)
Pouring its light into ashes
Reason tatters
The forces tear loose from the axis
Searchlight casting
For faults in the clouds of delusion

Shall we go, you and I, while we can?
Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds

Mirror shatters
In formless reflections of matter
Glass hand dissolving
To ice petal flowers revolving
Lady in velvet
Recedes in the nights of goodbye

Shall we go, you and I, while we can
Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds?

that's a pretty abstract one...

 

I love that song, always jammed out so long!

 

That's the way I always understood it too...

 

With a chainsaw















whee!! ^_^

 

all of those cowboys out of their gold.



He kills his uncle man, so what, great tune, we cover the fuck out of it.

In g.

 

because.. songs use to have meanings to them... thats why.... unlike rap and other crap people call music in this era... which is mostly meaningless filled with shit music.....

 

Is it just me or does YMSB cover that too... I can't remember. OHHHH... if they didn't, I just remembered where I heard it. I was taking turns with another band covering some dead stuff and grisman at a folkgrass festival last october... I love YMSB's come together.