Cover art for China Cat Sunflower [Pacific Northwest- ’73-’74] by The Grateful Dead

China Cat Sunflower [Pacific Northwest- ’73-’74]

Sep. 7, 20181 viewer

China Cat Sunflower [Pacific Northwest- ’73-’74] Lyrics

[Verse]
Look for a while at the china cat sunflower
Proud walking jingle in the midnight sun
Copperdome bodhi drip a silver kimono
Like a crazy quilt stargown 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

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What did The Grateful Dead say about "China Cat Sunflower [Pacific Northwest- '73-'74]"?
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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.

Hunter says:

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.

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Lead Vocals
Bass Guitar
Lead Guitar
Rhythm Guitar
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Recorded At
Memorial Coliseum (Portland, OR)
Released on
September 7, 2018
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