Re: The Weight

Crazy Chester followed me, and he caught me in the fog.
He said, "I will fix your rags, if you'll take Jack, my dog."
I said, "Wait a minute, Chester, you know I'm a peaceful man."
He said, "That's okay, boy, won't you feed him when you can."

I've come across three different versions of this stanza while searching the lyrics online. The area of confusion seems to be the second line. There is the above version, where it says "I will fix your rags", another one says "I will fix your rack", and yet another says "I will fix your raft".

Anyone know what the correct line is?

I wish I had a copy at work to listen to. I honestly don't know. I am horrible at hearing the right lyrics to songs even when they're obvious. I hear "rack" but that doesn't really mean much.

Did you happen to see this page? Looks like it's from a site dedicated to The Band so these lyrics might be more accurate than others:

http://theband.hiof.no/lyrics/the_weight.html

I just listened to it and to my ears it sounds like I will fix your raft

None of them make sense.

yeah, exactly. No matter which is correct, those lyrics baffle me....