France

Grateful Dead

Shakedown Street, Grateful Dead, 1978
Shakedown Street / France, Grateful Dead, 1979
Grateful Dead Sampler, Various Artists, 1978
Beyond Description, Grateful Dead, 2004

Notes

Robert Hunter comments on the writing of this song in Box Of Rain: Lyrics 1965 - 1993;

France was written to tapes of a joyous afternoon Latin jam at Mickey Hart's ranch, the same jam that spawned Molly Dee and Northeast by West. It was recorded by the Dead with abbreviated lyrics and a very different feel.