Ripple Down Dreams

I heard this song

And it sounded familiar;

It sounded so familiar

And I wondered why?

The Radio guy

Said they called it “Ripple”;

The name was “Ripple”

And Grateful Dead wrote it all.

Or so they said,

Jerry Garcia did the melody;

A sweet melody

Began to play in my head.

It played so clearly,

“Any Dream Will Do”;

“Any Dream Will Do”

Played in my head.

Not “Ripple” I heard,

But Andrew Lloyd Webber.

So who wrote what?

And it rippled on

Any dream will do.

Photos: The Grateful Dead, C. 1971 and

Joseph and the Amazing Technocolor Dreamcoat poster.