The story behind this song takes us back to September 15-20 1987, not sure which night it was my guess it was either a Friday or a Saturday given that I was going to school. I was a freshman in college at SUNY New Paltz and went down to NYC to see the Grateful Dead, take a listen and hear what went down.
Musicians | The Camp Store Carlsbad, CA | 3.29.2024
* Dan Greenbaum
* Aaron Brownwood
* Mike Hunt
* Mark ODonnell
LyricsShe stepped right off of the trainHeaded straight across the platformBehold, such a beautiful face, (she came up to me) Asked me for a lighter, you got one
Let me see the moonlight in your eyesLet me see the New York City lightsLet us smoke some incense and fill the airBaby don’t you know that we’re almost there
Because! Tonight it's only rock and roll, babeYou can have it any way we want, or else waltz awayMadison Square, walk right insideWe’re gonna dance to our favorite songs all nightGonna get crazy, let go and have ourselves a hell of a timeWe can go crazy on each other and have ourselves a hell of a time
Oh if you feel me, babeWon’t you join alongIf you feel, feel, feel it, got to join alongI know you long to, join along
If you want a right placeIf you want a piece of the action, actionThe whole, such a sweet embraceAlways amplifies attractionBecause! Tonight it's only rock and roll, babeYou can have it any way we want, or else waltz awayMadison Square, walk right insideWe’re gonna dance to our favorite songs all nightGonna get crazy, let go and have ourselves a hell of a timeWe can go crazy on each other and have ourselves a hell of a time
Oh if you feel me, babeWon’t you join alongIf you feel, feel, feel it, got to join alongI know you long to, join alongWhen we missed the last train homeCamped for Letterman tickets but got noneFloated through outer spaceRockefeller Center and then some
Because! Tonight it's only rock and roll, babeYou can have it any way we want, or else waltz awayMadison Square, walk right insideWe’re gonna dance to our favorite songs all nightGonna get crazy, let go and have ourselves a hell of a timeWe can go crazy on each other and have ourselves a hell of a time
Oh if you feel me, babeWon’t you join alongIf you feel, feel, feel it, got to join alongI know you long to, join along
About the SongJoin Along is a melodic homage to an incident that happened after a Madison Square Garden Grateful Dead show. My friends and I ended up stranded in NYC late nite after missing the last train north on the Hudson line. We ended up cruising up to Radio City, Rockafeller Plaza to camp out for David Letterman tickets. 6 country kids, very high on acid, safe on the marble floors of NBC in the 80s.About the DayAnother beautiful day in paradise, the day before I was spooked as the local weather men said it was going to rain, it didn’t. Our live shows are about giving back to the community, and celebrating their enduring spirit. The good lord wouldn’t have it any other way, so the weather held. First time I used the 80s custom Telecaster live at a show through a Fender Chris Stapleton Princeton, also the first time we performed the newly written song, “Warmth of the Fire“About the RamMark "The Ram" O'Donnell is an independent American composer, producer, filmmaker, multi-instrumental performer, designer, and visual artist based out of Carlsbad, California. He performs original, surf-inspired rock-and-roll music on the West Coast.
For more information about the Ram and his music, go to www.TheRamMusic.comSong MetadataJoin AlongThe RamUPC :197146039459Release date: September 23, 2022ASCAP Work ID: 920728999ASCAP Singer Songwriter IPI Number: 375350750ASCAP Publisher IPI Number: 375351159
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