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Song · 1974 · Psychedelic rock

Scarlet Begonias

1974

★ 5.9 editorial score

Hunter set his lyric in Grosvenor Square, and from 1977 the Dead ran it straight into Fire on the Mountain.

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From the Mars Hotel

Genre

Psychedelic rock Rock

Subject

Infatuation Serendipity

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