Keep Rolling By

Oh my darling tell me where I'm bound
Yesterday was your day of rest
Now I see too much racing around
Yesterday you had to beat up your miss
I've been here too many times before
I don't know, I would resist
I've got to see the other side of your door
I don't know, no, I've got a call for you

Whoa-oh, can't you see I got a lot to learn
I've got to know, no, no, now what's going on
Oh I don't even have a torch to burn
I've got to go, have I done you wrong
Now I can't be found by the wailing wall
You better stop girl, and take a look around
Sometimes, you have got to be ten feet tall
You better stop girl, and see what's going down

(Chorus)
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Summer, winter, spring and fall
Tick, tick, tick, tick

Well I been in your neighborhood for a long long time
You say to me, now, that you know it all
You breed confusion in that you forge my life
You say to me that you know it all
Years go by while I'm stranded in the cold
Well you tell me girl, everything's all right
And the songs I get to sing have all been told
I find out now, well, late at night

Well old man on the bus just won't let me ride
Yesterday was your day of rest
As he takes my dime and tells me how to die
Yesterday now, now, now
Here's my life, my love, set it up to
I don't know if you what you say is true
To say we're gonna really move
I don't know, I got to, got to talk to you

[chorus]

Time goes by, just a little bit, now
You gotta wait, you gotta wait until the time goes by, now
It doesn't matter what you do now
It's gonna keep on going on by
Going by
Going by now
Going by
Going by
Going by
Going by

Well you better
You may find you gotta wait awhile
But you can't wait because the time is right now
If you going to lose it now, you're gonna lose it forever
'Cause time keeps on by
Na, na, na

Whoa-oh it goes on by
Keep on rolling
Keep on rolling
Keep on rolling
Keep on rolling by
Keep on rolling by

Go show your fingers
Out your hands
Out your pockets
Out your bed
It's going on
Keep on going
Keep on going, babe
Now, now, now, now
Keep on going now
Keep on going by

Well you may want to stop it babe
And you can't turn it around
Well you may want to turn it up babe
But you sure can't turn it down
You gotta slow down a little bit girl
Keep on rolling by
Keep on rolling by
Keep on rolling by
Time keep on going by
Ain't a thing you can do now
Just keep on going with it
And just stay on top of it for a little while
For a little while
Just for a little while
Just for a little while

[chorus]

Keep on going by

1. On the 7/3/66 performance, it sounds as if the band sings "just won't tell my why" instead of "just won't let me ride."

2. It seems doubtful that this is a traditional song. As Alex Allan noted, it sounds much more like the originals that the band was writing at the time.

3. It seems unlikely that Keep Rolling By is actually the song's title. The phrase is not present in Pigpen's rap on the 7/3/66 performance:

Time goes by
In the morning you want to go by
And in the evening you want to go by too
Everything's gonna be all right
All right
You know time goes by just a little bit away
Time goes by a little bit away
Some kind of seems a long from all right
Well all right
All I want to know is
How you feel in the morning baby
Everything is gonna be all right
Oh come on