[af_vet_1981]

"Ripple" is the sixth song on the Grateful Dead album American Beauty. It was released as the B-side to the single "Truckin'".[2]

Robert Hunter wrote this song in 1970 in London in the same afternoon he wrote "Brokedown Palace" and "To Lay Me Down" (reputedly also drinking half a bottle of retsina in the process [3]). The song debuted August 18, 1970 at Fillmore West in San Francisco. Jerry Garcia wrote the music to this song.[4]

Several lines throughout the song have been compared to the 23rd Psalm of the Bible.

[Fresh Wind]

I would add Sugar Magnolia and Box of Rain, also from American Beauty. All are great songs on one of the best albums of 1970.