KENTUCKY ROSEMARY

Boots were of leather
A breath of cologne
Her mirror was a window
She sat quite alone

All around her
the garden grew
scarlet and purple
and crimson and blue

She came and she went
and at last went away
The garden was sealed
when the flowers decayed

On the wall of the garden
a legend did say:
No one may come here
since no one may stay

Here is an excerpt from a mini essay on the Annotated Grateful Dead website.....
A very interesting comparison about "Rosemary"
Thanks to the original writer and a note......This was the only time "Rosemary" was played live

Perhaps you've read the story Rappaccini's Daughter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Well, I grabbed an old copy, and sat down to compare it to the lyrics. Though you've probably read it, I'll give a very hasty storyline. Giovanni, a student new to Padua, takes up residence in an old house overlooking a beautiful garden. Upon inquiry, he learns that the garden belongs to a famous doctor by the name of Rappaccini, and that no one is allowed in the garden, other than the doctor, and his daughter. Giovanni occupies his time by looking out of his window at the garden, and thinks it the finest he's ever seen. He always manages to notice "one shrub in particular, that bore a profusion of purple blossoms..." One day, while looking in the garden, he notices Rappaccini working. Giovanni finds it odd that Rappaccini wears a mask and gloves, while working in the garden, as though he's taking care not to inhale the odor of the plants. Rappaccini suddenly stops working, and call out to a window above him.

"'Beatrice! Beatrice'
'Here I am, my father, what would you?'
cried a rich and youthful voice from the window of the opposite house-a voice as rich as a tropical sunset, and which made Giovanni, though he knew not why, think of hues of deep purple, or crimson, and of perfumes heavily delectable."

Giovanni thinks of her incessantly, and watches her from his window. One day, while watching her, he calls out to her from the window, and tosses her a bouquet of flowers. Two two exchange brief words, and before she takes her leave, he notices the bouquet beginning to wither in her hands. Some time later, a servant informs him of a secret entrance into the garden, and he investigates. Upon entering the garden, he studies the plants, and is soon met with the figure of Beatrice, appearing from a sculptured portal. The two exchange words and take a strong liking to each other. He starts to notice something odd about her breath, a perfumed quality. When she touches his hands, she leaves purple prints that burn his hands, the color of the odd shrub that he noticed prior. He ushers these thoughts to the back of his mind, and the two schedule similar meetings. They manage to keep a physical distance, despite their attraction to one another.

Here, I'm going to butcher a remarkable story, and skip straight to the ending. Giovanni, while walking in the garden with Beatrice, notices the odd shrub again. he asks her when the shrub was planted. She replies that her father created it, that it sprung up out of the soil the very day she was born. She then tells him that she's been so lonely, as she wasn't allowed company, and that heaven must have sent Giovanni to her. Giovanni, after putting two and two together, realizes that Beatrice is a sister to the poisonous plant, and that she, too, is deadly. Her breath is poisonous, and her touch kills. Giovanni, after his anger, produces a vial to cure them both of the poison that her father instilled in her. Eagerly, she grabs the bottle to drink it, and upon doing so, Rappaccini enters. He instructs Beatrice to pick one of the deadly flowers and pin it on Giovanni, he has been watching them, and devised a way for them to be together. The flower will not harm him now, and the two can live together peacefully. But, it was too late. As poison was all that Beatrice had known, the antidote was the cause of her death.

Now, as I said before, I might be reading too much into it, be I find these similarities at least oddly coincidental.

"A breath of cologne
Her mirror was a window
She sat quite alone"

A breath of cologne referring to her perfumed, poisoned breath, possibly?

She was quite lonely before she met Giovanni. The first time he saw her was through a window, and the first time she saw him was through a window. Maybe that's the mirror?

All around her
the garden grew
scarlet and purple
and crimson and blue

That one is pretty self explanatory, of course, the references to the colors of the flowers is nice. Almost the exact same colors.

"She came and she went
and at last went away
The garden was sealed
when the flowers decayed"

They met repeatedly, until she died. My guess is that since the plant was her "sister,"the plant died, too. Perhaps Rappaccini sealed the garden and stopped his experiments after the death of his daughter.

"On the wall of the garden
a legend did say:
No one may come here
since no one may stay"

As no one was allowed in the garden walls other than Rappaccini and Beatrice, because the poison would eventually kill anyone not immune to it.

Set 1:
d1t01 - //Dark Star ->
d1t02 - Saint Stephen ->
d1t03 - The Eleven
d1t04 - //Death Don't Have No Mercy
d1t05 - //That's It For The Other One ->
d1t06 - New Potato Caboose

Set 2:
d2t01 - //Rosemary
d2t02 - He Was A Friend Of Mine//
d2t03 - //It Hurts Me Too
d2t04 - Morning Dew ->
d2t05 - And We Bid You Good Night

December 7, 1968
Bellarmine College - Louisville, KY