Alligator

A song by the Grateful Dead, from Anthem of the Sun.

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Alligator live

• Played 85 times at 80 shows.
• First played Dec 18, 1965 at Big Beat Club, Palo Alto, CA.
• Last played Apr 29, 1971 at Fillmore East, New York, NY, 1642 shows before the band's last show.

Live stats per setlist.fm, as of Oct 27, 2026.

Alligator is one of the songs in the daily Grateful Dead lyric game: one line of a song, three guesses to name it.

More songs from Anthem of the Sun

• Born Cross-Eyed
• Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)
• Cryptical Envelopment
• New Potato Caboose
• The Other One

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