"China Cat Sunflower" lyrics
"China Cat Sunflower"
Look for a while at the china cat sunflower
Proud walking jingle in the midnight sun
Copper dome bodhi drip a silver kimono
Like a crazy quilt star gown through a dream night wind
Krazy Kat peeking through a lace bandanna
Like a one-eyed Cheshire, like a diamond-eye jack
A leaf of all colors plays a golden-string fiddle
To a double-e waterfall over my back
Comic book colors on a violin river crying Leonardo
Words from out a silk trombone
I rang a silent bell, beneath a shower of pearls
In the eagle-winged palace of the Queen Chinee
Writer(s): Robert Hunter, Jerome Garcia
Robert Hunter explained how he wrote "China Cat Sunflower" in the book "Conversations With The Dead: The Grateful Dead Interview Book" by David Gans and Blair Jackson, "I had a cat sitting on my belly, and was in a rather hypersensitive state, and I followed this cat out to – I believe it was Neptune – and there were rainbows across Neptune, and cats marching across the rainbow. This cat took me in all these cat places; there's some essence of that in the song."
The Grateful Dead first performed this song at the Carousel Ballroom in San Francisco, CA, on the 17th of January 1968.
The version of the song from the album "Europe '72" was used in the film "Taking Woodstock" (2009).
The Grateful Dead made a
video for this song using cat and dog photos from their fans to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the album "Aoxomoxoa" in 2019.
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album:
"Aoxomoxoa" (1969)
live album:
"Europe '72" (1972)
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