The Grateful Dead
China Doll (Live at Winterland, San Francisco, December 29, 1977)
[Instrumental Intro]

[Verse 1]
A pistol shot at five o'clock
The bells of heaven ring
Tell me what you done it for
No, I won't tell you a thing
Yesterday I begged you
Before I hit the ground
All I leave behind me
Is only what I found
If you can abide it
Let the hurdy-gurdy play
Stranger ones have come by here
Before they flew away

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 2]
I will not condemn you
Nor yet would I deny
I would ask the same of you
But failing will not die

[Outro]
Take up your china doll
(Take up your china doll)
It's only fractured
And just a littlе nervous from the fall
Just a little nеrvous from the fall
[Instrumental Outro]