Dear Mr. Fantasy

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Dear Mr. Fantasy is a rock song by Traffic off their 1967 album, Mr. Fantasy. It was written by Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood, and Chris Wood, although Winwood took on most of the musical construction of the song and sang it on the album.

The song was covered by Canadian rock band Big Sugar in 1995, and by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.

In addition the song was famously performed on multiple occasions throughout the 80's by the Grateful Dead with keyboardist Brent Mydland on vocals. Gov't Mule is known to occassionaly cover the song also. It also appeared on "The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper" in 1969, where its chord progression morphed into "Hey Jude".

The song was used in the promotion of the NFL Network and the movie, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.

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