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I wrote it in different settings and added this andthat to it. 29) Hunter says: " 'China Cat' took a long time to write. In an interview in Golden Road (Spring, 1991, p. It's good that a few things in this world are clear to allof us." People seem to know exactly whatI'm talking about. In his Box of Rain, Hunter writes: "Nobody ever asked me the meaning of this song. 24), Hunter said: "Ican sit right here and write you a China Cat or one of those things in tenminutes.How many of those things do you need.?" Ken covers the song in their live performances. If you have time, check out my China Cat page, which (of course) featuresa direct link to your China Cat Sunflower page. By 1979 we hadreleased a single on Atlantis Records of LA and were getting lots of airplay in the SF Bay Area market.the name China Cat was well-exposedduring that period. The Dead were a big influence.īut wait, there's more.
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Since i was the bass player (and one ofthe creative forces in that band) I worked into our songs a lot ofsyncopation. IN addition, we covered a few Dead arrangements of cover songs(Know You Rider, Not Fade Away). During the period of 1971-72and then again between 19 I was in a Bay Area band calledChina Cat, the name adopted by myself as a direct result of my love thatDead song. This ispurely a piece of trivia-with-a-small-T. 2.Īn enduring song in the band's repertoire, usually paired with "I Know YouRider" in concert, leading to the designation "China/Rider."Ī reader writes: Date: Mon, 13:51:32 -0700Īnyway, this message is in reference to China Cat Sunflower. Grateful Dead: Authentic Guitar Classics Vol.Hunter has posted the manuscript of an early draft of the song in his archives. Look for awhile at the China Cat Sunflower Its final performance was on July 8, 1995, at Soldier Field, in Chicago.The Annotated "China Cat Sunflower" "A leaf of all colors plays a golden-stringed fiddle." The Annotated "China Cat Sunflower"An installment in the Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics.ġ997-1998 Research Associate, Music Dept., University of California Santa CruzĬhina Cat SunflowerWords by Robert Hunter music by Jerry GarciaĬopyright Ice Nine Publishing used by permission. Overall, it was performed live 552 times that we know of, making it the fifth most-played song by the band, and number one in songs sung by Garcia. The first known live version of the song dates from a Carousel Ballroom performance on January 17, 1968.Ĭhina Cat” remained steadily the repertoire, with the exception of the years 1975-1978, when it was played just once, in 1977. This cat took me in all these cat places there's some essence of that in the song." 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. I don't think any of the words came, exactly-the rhythms came. "I think the germ of came in Mexico, on Lake Chapala. I'd have to admit that before you could trace it back that there was some influence."Īnd then there's this in David Gans' Conversations with the Dead, Hunter says: Wag like a bear, with my top hat and my whiskers, that tra-la-la trapped affair.' I just like the way she put things together. It was originally inspired by Dame Edith Sitwell, who had a way with words-I like the idea of quick, clicky assonance and alliteration like 'See me dance the polka, said Mr. I wrote it in different settings and added this and that to it. "To the jade 'Come kiss me harder' He called across the battlements as she Heard our voices thin and shrill As the steely grasses' thrill, Or the sound of the onycha When the phoca has the pica In the palace of the Queen Chinee!" Quote from the Dame Edith Sitwell poem "Trio for Two Cats and a Trombone": More recently played by The Other Ones, Ratdog and Phil & Friends. Played by the Dead from 1968 to 1995, almost invariably seguing into I Know You Rider. Krazy Kat peeking through a lace bandana like a one-eyed Cheshire like a diamond-eyed jack A leaf of all colors plays a golden string fiddle to a double-e waterfall over my backĬomic 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 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