Level: 2
Tuning: Standard

A rare top ten single from the Dead in 1987, "Touch Of Grey" was on the album of the same year, "In the Dark." An imaginative video (their first) was released to promote the single on MTV. The song (Robert Hunter's lyric and Garcia's music) deals with aging and is a take on the saying "every cloud has a silver lining," changing it ironically to "every silver lining's got a touch of grey." This arrangement in the key of D is mostly based on the Travis, alternating thumb-bass style of fingerpicking, except for the strumming on the bridge, and only has easy, first position chords.