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[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
China Cat Sunflower [Live at Baltimore Civic Center, Baltimore, MD, 9/17/72] was written by Jerry Garcia & Robert Hunter.
China Cat Sunflower [Live at Baltimore Civic Center, Baltimore, MD, 9/17/72] was produced by The Grateful Dead.
The Grateful Dead released China Cat Sunflower [Live at Baltimore Civic Center, Baltimore, MD, 9/17/72] on Tue Oct 16 2001.
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 –...