China Cat Sunflower (Live at The Spectrum, Philadelphia, September 21, 1972)
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China Cat Sunflower (Live at The Spectrum, Philadelphia, September 21, 1972) by The Grateful Dead
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Jerry Garcia & Robert HunterChina Cat Sunflower (Live at The Spectrum, Philadelphia, September 21, 1972) Lyrics
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
[Instrumental break]
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]
China Cat Sunflower (Live at The Spectrum, Philadelphia, September 21, 1972) Q&A
Who wrote China Cat Sunflower (Live at The Spectrum, Philadelphia, September 21, 1972)'s ?
China Cat Sunflower (Live at The Spectrum, Philadelphia, September 21, 1972) was written by Jerry Garcia & Robert Hunter.
Who produced China Cat Sunflower (Live at The Spectrum, Philadelphia, September 21, 1972)'s ?
China Cat Sunflower (Live at The Spectrum, Philadelphia, September 21, 1972) was produced by The Grateful Dead.
When did The Grateful Dead release China Cat Sunflower (Live at The Spectrum, Philadelphia, September 21, 1972)?
The Grateful Dead released China Cat Sunflower (Live at The Spectrum, Philadelphia, September 21, 1972) on Thu Sep 21 1972.
What did The Grateful Dead say about "China Cat Sunflower (Live at The Spectrum, Philadelphia, September 21, 1972)"?
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 –...