Airplane Pilot Dead Head (Story) Chords

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[Verse 1]
I don't [E]like flying,
so I drive a lot.
Over the summer, I had a really bad
experience on an airplane.
They were flying me
between Martha's Vineyard
and Nantucket
on one of those tiny double -propped airplanes,
you know, the ones I'm talking about.
No stewardess.
You know, the pilot's throwing the peanuts back
from the front seat.
As I got on the airplane,
I noticed that the co -pilot's seat was emptied,
so I decided I'd sit there just in case
we went down.
I'd have a good view.
as I was sitting there,
Rob Wasserman got on the back of the airplane
and I leaned into the pilot and I said,
that's Rob Wasserman,
he's the bass player
from The Grateful Dead.
He just got on the back of the airplane.
And the pilot leaned over to me
and he said, well, he's not the principal bass
player in The Grateful Dead
that's a guy named Phil Lesh,
this guy's in some sideband called Rat Dog
or something.
I don't know if you know
the cultural significance
of discovering your pilot's a deadhead,
but I broke out in a cold sweat.
I said, how many shows
have you been to?
He said, 50.
So it's the middle of a rainstorm,
and we're running down the runway there,
and I'm getting really nervous.
We take off, we enter this cloud.
I look up, it's gray.
I look down, it's gray.
I look forward, gray,
and I say, you're not seeing color
right now, are you?
So we were ribbing each other back
and forth.
I could feel my body unclench.
we finally emerged from the cloud,
and I could see the runway lights.
And I was like, land home.
I'm going to make it.
I'm going to be OK.
And then he leaned into me
and he said, you know,
a lot of famous people die like this.
I said, I'm not famous.
He said, you would
be if we went down.
That's airlines for you.