China Cat Sunflower (Live at Recreation Hall, Penn State University, May 6, 1980)
Track 13 on Road Trips Volume 3 Number 4
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China Cat Sunflower (Live at Recreation Hall, Penn State University, May 6, 1980) Lyrics
[Intro]
Y'all have to move back. Everybody up front, move back. Just a few inches would make a big difference up here, so people up here could breathe. So, at the count of three, everybody take a step back, okay? One, two, three, step back. One, two, three, take another step back, and another step back, and another step back, a little tiny one
[Verse 1]
Look for a while at the china cat sunflower
Proud walking jingle in the midnight sun
Copperdome bodhi drip a silvеr kimono
Like a crazy quilt stargown through a dream night wind
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 2]
Krazy Kat peeking through a lace bandanna
Likе 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
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 3]
Comic book colors on a violin river crying a lot of
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
[Instrumental]
Y'all have to move back. Everybody up front, move back. Just a few inches would make a big difference up here, so people up here could breathe. So, at the count of three, everybody take a step back, okay? One, two, three, step back. One, two, three, take another step back, and another step back, and another step back, a little tiny one
[Verse 1]
Look for a while at the china cat sunflower
Proud walking jingle in the midnight sun
Copperdome bodhi drip a silvеr kimono
Like a crazy quilt stargown through a dream night wind
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 2]
Krazy Kat peeking through a lace bandanna
Likе 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
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 3]
Comic book colors on a violin river crying a lot of
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
[Instrumental]
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What did The Grateful Dead say about "China Cat Sunflower (Live at Recreation Hall, Penn State University, May 6, 1980)"?
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In his A Box of Rain, Hunter wrote:
I think the germ of “China Cat Sunflower” came in Mexico, on Lake Chapala. I don’t think any of the words came, exactly – the rhythms came.
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.
- 13.China Cat Sunflower (Live at Recreation Hall, Penn State University, May 6, 1980)
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Recreation Hall, Penn State University (State College, PA)
Released on
September 7, 2010
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