Fiddle I Know You a Rider

"A leafage of all colors plays a golden-stringed fiddle..."

The Annotated "China Cat Sunflower"

An installment in the Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics.
By David Dodd
1997-1998 Research Associate, Music Dept., University of California Santa Cruz

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China Cat Sunflower

Words by Robert Hunter; music by Jerry Garcia
Copyright Ice Nine Publishing; used past permission.

Look for awhile at the China Cat Sunflower
proud-walking jingle in the midnight sunday
Copper-dome Bodhi baste a silver kimono
like a crazy-quilt stargown
through a dream nighttime current of air

Krazy Kat peeking through a lace bandana
like a 1-eyed Cheshire
like a diamond-heart Jack
A leaf of all colors plays
a aureate string dabble
to a double-eastward waterfall over my dorsum

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 wing palace
of the Queen Chinee

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Prc Cat Sunflower

Hunter has posted the manuscript of an early on typhoon of the song in his archives.

Musical details:

• Cardinal: G
• Time signature: 4/4
• Chords used: Thou, F, D, E, B, A
• Songbook availability:
  • Anthology
  • Grateful Dead: Accurate Guitar Classics Vol. 2.
  • Without A Net
  • Hundred Year Hall

Recorded on:

• AOXOMOXOA
• Europe 72
• Without a Net.
• Hundred Year Hall
• Dick's Picks, vol. four

An enduring vocal in the band's repertoire, usually paired with "I Know Y'all Passenger" in concert, leading to the designation "Mainland china/Passenger."

A reader writes:

Date: Monday, 08 Jul 1996 13:51:32 -0700
From: Ken Rattenne

Hi David,

...

Anyhow, this bulletin is in reference to China Cat Sunflower. This is purely a piece of trivia-with-a-small-T. During the period of 1971-72 and then again between 1976 and 1980 I was in a Bay Area band called Mainland china Cat, the name adopted by myself every bit a direct issue of my love that Dead song. IN addition, nosotros covered a few Dead arrangements of cover songs (Know You lot Rider, Not Fade Away). Since i was the bass actor (and ane of the creative forces in that band) I worked into our songs a lot of syncopation. The Expressionless were a big influence.

But wait, at that place'due south more than. We weren't simply a garage band. By 1979 we had released a single on Atlantis Records of LA and were getting lots of air play in the SF Bay Area market place...the name Communist china Cat was well-exposed during that period.

If you lot accept time, check out my China Cat page, which (of course) features a direct link to your Communist china True cat Sunflower folio.

Ken Rattenne
rattenne@earthlink.internet

Oroboros covers the song in their live performances.

In an interview in Relix (vol. 5 #two, p. 24), Hunter said: "I can sit right here and write you a People's republic of china True cat or one of those things in x minutes...How many of those things practice yous need...?"

In his Box of Rain, Hunter writes:

"Nobody always asked me the meaning of this song. People seem to know exactly what I'm talking about. It's proficient that a few things in this globe are articulate to all of the states."

In an interview in Gilt Route (Jump, 1991, p. 29) Hunter says:

" 'China Cat' took a long time to write. I wrote it in different settings and added this and that to it. It was originally inspired past Dame Edith Sitwell, who had a mode with words--I like the idea of quick, clicky assonance and alliteration like 'See me dance the polka, said Mr. 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. I'd take to admit that before you could trace information technology back that in that location was some influence."

(Sitwell'south influence on this song may also exist found in the closing line.)

The Matriarch Edith Sitwell poem quoted by Hunter goes like this:

Polka

'Tra la la la la la la la
La
La!

Run into me dance the polka,'
Said Mr. Wagg like a conduct,
'With my top hat
And my whiskers that--
(Tra la la la) trap the Off-white.

Where the waves eem chiming haycocks
I trip the light fantastic toe the polka; in that location
Stand Venus' children in their gay frocks--
Maroon and marine--and stare

To come across me fire my pistol
Through the distances blue equally my coat;
Similar Wellington, Byron, the Marquis of Bristol,
Buzbied great copse float.

While the wheezing hurdy-gurdy
Of the marine air current blows me
To the tune of Annie Rooney, sturdy,
Over the sheafs of body of water;

And brilliant as a seedsman's packet
With zinnias, candytufts chill,
Is Mrs. Marigold'south jacket
As she gapes at the inn door still,

Where at dawn in the box of the sailor,
Blue equally the decks of the ocean,
Nelson awoke, crowed like the cocks,
Then back to grit sank he.

And Robinson Crusoe
Rues so

The brilliant and foxy beer--
Simply he finds fresh isles in a Negress' smiles--
The poxy doxy dear,

As they watch me dance the polka,'
Said Mr. Wagg like a deport,
'In my summit hat and my whiskers that--
Tra la la la, trap the Off-white.

Tra la la la la--
Tra la la la la--
Tra la la la la la la la

La

La

La!'

This note from a reader:

Bailiwick: red china cat sunflower
Date: Fri, one Nov 1996 10:xv:30 -0500
From: MADnies666@aol.com

Dear David,

...

Now to a couple of notes about China Cat. First, people may desire to know that the poem Polka, that Hunter cites has been set to music, forth with virtually 40 other Sitwell poems by the British composer William Walton (1902-1983). 'Polka' appears in a piece for reciter and chamber ensemble chosen "Facade." There are many recordings of the music, which is funny and ironic, but not many with reciter. There was 1 on London with Jeremy Irons merely I remember that it'south out of print now. I believe that at that place is a recording with Sitwell doing the reciting on EMI or Pearl but I'chiliad non sure. In any event anyone interested in some wonderfully witty word fantasys, and some droll music should endeavour to hear this piece.

--Rick

And in David Gans' Conversations with the Dead, Hunter says:

"I think the germ of [China True 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 true cat took me in all these true cat places; at that place'southward some essence of that in the song." --p. 24

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China Cat

This note from a reader:

Date: Thu, xvi May 2002 14:57:eleven -0400
From: "Borner, Brooke [PVTC]"

Hello,

Great website! Just wanted to mention something which y'all probably accept heard many times earlier: I believe the 'China Cat' in China Cat Sunflower refers to the beckoning porcelain cats that beautify the front windows of Japanese restaurants and teahouses, etc. The figure is called is known as Maneki Neko and is believed to bring customers and wealth to a merchant'southward establishment. The fable of the Maneki Neko is that a traveling man, who was sitting out a tempest nether a tree one day, was beckoned to the porch of a nearby temple by a cat that appeared to be waving to him. When the traveler approached the cat, a lightning bolt hit the tree where he had been sitting only moments before. The grateful traveler became a benefactor of the temple and the image of the waving cat entered the popular iconography of Japanese culture forever. Most Japanese businesses even today accept a mainland china cat in the front window or above the cash register.

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Sunflower

This annotation from a reader:

Subject area: china true cat sunflower
Appointment: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 10:xv:30 -0500
From: MADnies666@aol.com

Likewise, I tin't help but wonder most the Sunflower in CCS. It makes me call up of 2 things immediately; VanGogh and Allen Ginsburg. I recollect the VanGogh is a stretch for while there are some psychedelic aspects to the Sunflower paintings, they really are as well virulently angry and psychotic to take much connection to such a warm, childlike song like Communist china True cat.

On the other hand, I would be surprised if anyone who had hung out in coffee houses in the early sixties and hung with Neal Cassidy would be unfamiliar with "Sunflower Sutra" by Ginsberg. The poem appears in Howl and other poems which is defended to, among others, Cassidy. The sunflower in this poem is more probable linked. While it is some times a dark presence, a representation of mortality, it is also a symbol of hope, of at least a once lived life. It is rather more all encompassing, somthing our worldly, joyous Communist china True cat might be. Merely a thought.

--Rick

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Proud-walking jingle

A reader, Joe Zomerfeld, notes that this phrase parallels the line in "The 11":

"Six proud walkers on the jingle-bell rainbow"

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midnight sunday

An oxymoron, though one which is really applied to chill regions such as Scandinavia and Alaska (the state of the midnight lord's day). Some like flavor to the two words "Dark" and "Star" (q.v.). Compare the line in "Then Many Roads"

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Copper dome

This note from a reader:

From: YukisDad@aol.com [mailto:YukisDad@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 v:41 AM
Subject: Input for People's republic of china True cat

Cheers for your amazing work on the Dead lyrics. I visit often. With regard to China Cat, another vector you may desire to include is:

"Proud walking jingle in the midnight lord's day... Copper dome bodhi..."

On the corner of Castro and 18th streets in SF, there's a banking concern with a copper dome. Just up 18th street is a popular bar, The Midnight Sun.

thanks,
Scott

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Bodhi

"(Sanskrit and Pali: "enkindling," enlightenment"), in Buddhism, the last Enlightenment, which puts an cease to the cycle of transmigration and leads to Nirvana, or spiritual release; the feel is comparable to the Satori of Zen Buddhism in Nippon. The accomplishment of this "awakening" transformed Siddhartha Gautama into a Buddha (an Awakened One).
The final Enlightenment remains the ultimate platonic of all Buddhists, to be attained by ridding oneself of flase beliefs and the hindrance of passions..."

-- The Encyclopedia Britannica.

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Leonardo words

Maybe a reference to the fact that Leonardo da Vinci wrote in mirror script.

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Pearls

Both pearls and the moon are "symbols of the Buddha-nature inherent in all beings." (Snyder, Cold Mount Poems, p. 63.")

According to Pao-chih (418-514),

Why should you lot wait
for treasure abroad?
Within yourself you
have a bright pearl!

Quoted in Burton Watson'southward translations of the Cold Mountain poems, p. 73.)

Annotation also the parallel between the "shower of pearls" in China Cat Sunflower and the "nightfall of diamonds" in Nighttime Star.

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crazy-quilt

For information on crazy quilts in full general, see Crazy Quilt Primal.

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Krazy Kat

The supreme creation of George Herriman (1880-1944), the Krazy Kat strip appeared daily from 1913 to the fourth dimension of its creator's expiry.

"At that place are many ways to view Krazy Kat, and information technology has been analyzed exhaustively. It has been portrayed as a variation on the eternal triangle of tragic romances; as a grand argument on freedom versus potency; as an allegory on innocence meeting reality; and, of form, as a comic cacophony of obsessions. The strip had a Joycean affinity, especially in its loftier/low wealth of language. Herriman is supposed to take one time responded to these analyses with the astonished reply that he merely drew a comic virtually a cat and mouse." -- Marschall. America's Cracking Comic-Strip Artists.. pp 110-111.

The US Postal service issued a Krazy Kat stamp in 1995, as part of their comics commemoratives issue.

Bank check out The Archy and Mehitabel folio for more than samples of Herriman's work. (Not to mention the wonderful Don Marquis!)

And this note from a reader:

Dearest Mr. Dodd
Start of all I'd like to express my deepest thank you to y'all for creating such an incredible website. I take spent many hours astutely reading all of the insightful annotations. Some of them have thoroughly diddled my mind. I take to say that I feel I was born in the wrong decade. Beingness only seventeen and an infant in the eighties, I never had the take a chance to see the Dead alive. This, more than and so anything, pains me. However, I still consider myself a loyal and dedicated fan, for I feel the message behind the music is not bound past the confines of fourth dimension. The first dead tune I heard was off a tape my buddy fabricated for me. It was a version of China/Passenger from the Europe 72 album. Immediately I savage in dear with the music. Naturally when I get-go discovered the site I went strait to the China Cat lyrics. What had Jerry been maxim all those years? The line "Krazy Kat peeking through a lace bandana" interested me. The footnote virtually the cartoon was very insightful indeed, only I couldn't help simply wonder if that was really what Mr. Hunter was referring to. Recently I read On The Road past the talented Jack Kerouac. My conscienceness was soaked in a feeling of understanding and connection when I read the line where Dean referred to Sid, the protagonist, as the "crazy cat". I am sure that Hunter was a fan of Kerouac because Kerouac was one of the beat gods whom the counterculture of the sixties idealized(and rightly so). Sid, the crazy cat, is a grapheme who is utterly excited with life itself. He travels around the country coming together new people, observing life, and immersing himself in the freedom of thought, expression, and liquor. Near of Sid observes and the "Crazy Cat" "peeks". And is peeking not observing? Of form it is. Both the song and the book fill up me with a similar feeling a feeling of glee and mirth. This was a connection I simply could not allow pass me past. Mayhap the supposition that the lyrics are spelled with "chiliad's" is wrong. Or perchance not. Just something to think about. Once over again I'd like to thank you for all your work.

-Your fellow Dead enthusiast,
Kieran

In slight amendment, this note from another reader:

Date: Mon, 29 April 2002 18:fifteen:17 EDT
From: FOURGAUGE@aol.com

Hello,
I am new to your site and detect it so astonishing!! Thank You.
I happened to exist reading China Cat Sunflower and clicked on the link to Krazy Kat. A fan wrote a letter about "On the Road" past Kerouac, simply i am pretty sure she used a wrong name for a character. She probably meant to type Sal, simply instead typed Sid. The graphic symbol is Sal Paradise, and i dont fifty-fifty think there is a Sid in the book at all. Minor problem, but just letting you know.
Dave Harding

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Cheshire

A reference to the Cheshire-True cat of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865): We kickoff meet the Cheshire Cat in the Duchess' kitchen. She is nursing a baby:

"...The only two creatures in the kitchen, that did non sneeze, were the melt, and a large true cat, which was lying on the hearth and grinning from ear to ear.
`Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was not quite certain whether it was adept manners for her to speak first, `why your cat grins like that?'
`Information technology's a Cheshire cat,' said the Duchess, `and that'due south why."

And a lilliputian after, she meets the true cat over again:

"...when she was a lilliputian startled by seeing the Cheshire-Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off.
The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked expert-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a neat many teeth, and then she felt that it ought to exist treated with respect.
`Cheshire-Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would similar the name: however, it only grinned a trivial wider. `Come, information technology'southward pleased then far,' idea Alice, and she went on. `Would y'all tell me, delight, which mode I ought to become from here?"
`That depends a proficient deal on where you want to go to,' said the Cat.
`I don't much care where---' said Alice.
`And so it doesn't matter which way yous go,' said the True cat.
`--and so long as I get somewhere,' Alice added as an caption. ..."

and later,

"`Past-the-bye, what became of the baby?' said the Cat. `I'd near forgotten to ask.'
`Information technology turned into a hog,' Alice answered very quietly, just as if the Cat had come up dorsum in a natural way.
`I thought it would,' said the Cat, and vanished again.'"

The true cat makes ane more (partial) appearance, at the Queen's croquet game. She orders him beheaded, but the executioner says he can't behead the cat, since only the head is visible.

A footnote in the wonderful The Annotated Alice speculates on the origin of the Cheshire Cat:

"`Grinning similar a Cheshire cat' was a common phrase in Carroll'due south twenty-four hours. Its origin is not known. The 2 leading theories are: (1) A sign painter in Cheshire (the canton, past the style, where Carroll was born) painted smiling lions on the signboards of inns in the expanse (see Notes and Queries, No. 130, April 24, 1852, page 402), (ii) Cheshire cheeses were at ane time molded in the shape of a smiling cat (encounter Notes and Queries, No. 55, Nov. 16, 1850, folio 412.) `This has a peculiar Carrollian appeal,' writes Dr. Phyllis Greenacre in her psychoanalytic study of Carroll, `equally it provokes the fantasy that the cheesy cat may eat the rat that would eat the cheese.' The Cheshire Cat is not in the original manuscript, Alice's Adventures Underground.

Other references to the Cheshire True cat in Grateful Dead and related lyrics include the early Warlocks song "Tin't Come Down", and "Down the Route." (lyrics past Robert Hunter, music by Mickey Hart) on Mickey Hart's Mystery Box, with its prototype of Garcia disappearing in the heaven, leaving just "a smile in empty space."

The evocations brought out by the use of the give-and-take "Cheshire" include all the wonderful characters and situations of the Alice stories, which were widely evoked in stone lyrics of the belatedly 60's, most notably in the Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit." A case could be fabricated for the Beatles' "I am the Walrus" as well.

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Diamond-Eye Jack

The Jack of Diamonds is not a i-eyed jack, opposite to what I wrote earlier in these pages. Thanks to Daniel Freeman for the correction!

And this note from a reader:

Subject: More Cathay Cat
Engagement: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 17:05:49 -0700
From: Ken.Johnson@ci.seattle.wa.us

Seems to me that the "Diamond Eye Jack" refers to the shape of eyes on the clown in a Jack-in-the-Box, the toy not the meat.

Later,
FURTHUR,
Ken Johnson (still at kenj111111@aol.com)

And another reader writes:

Q: When is a 1-eyed Jack a diamond?
A: When one-eyed Jacks are wild.
(Come across, eastward.g, Doin' that Rag, "One eyed jacks and the deuces are wild")

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Double E

This is a mystery phrase. I'm coming to recall that it actually originated with Bob Dylan's vocal, "It Takes a Lot to Express mirth," which includes the line:

"Don't the brakeman await good, Ma, flaggin' downwards the double-e...."

although I accept always previously thought that it really was a type of railroad train, probably standing for the Double Express--therefore, a fast train. Might likewise exist a shortened version of "Double-Ender," divers in Runway Talk as "a steam locomotive built to run equally well in either management. It had two boilers and a key cab and firebox."

See also Warren Zevon's "Poor Pitiful Me," which contains the line:

"Laid my head on the railroad runway, waitin' on the Double Due east."

This note from Daniel South. Dawdy, maintainer of the Internet World Railroad:

Date: Tue, 25 Apr 95 12:36 CDT
From: "Daniel Southward. Dawdy"

Hi David:

Double E - I accept never heard of this myself. Y'all may be right, nonetheless, the most popular rider locomotive in the 40's through the threescore's was congenital by EMD and called an E-unit of measurement. Information technology came in many styles starting with the E2, and upwards to the concluding ones built which were E9's. They were diesel-electric and most times, on long passenger hauls, were run with other E's. Could exist two, three or more. I am merely guessing here and may be fashion off base of operations, but that'south what comes to my mind. That may be a skillful one for the newsgroups. I checked my definitions and came upward empty.

This could mean either that a Double E is a double-locomotive diesel-electric powered train, or that it is a reference to the E2 model built by EMD. More word could be forthcoming from the diesel experts! So stay tuned...

This note from a reader: (reprinted with permission)

Date: Wed, 8 Mar 95 12:xv:08 PST
From: ken johnson
To: ddodd@serf.uccs.edu
Subject field: Re: Just stopped past to say

The merely thing I tin add together to the notation, off the summit of my head, is that "double-Eastward waterfall" to me, every bit a musician, meant one of those unfretted notes way up the guitar neck, that when played through a flange/repeat device provides cascades of repeat/overtones, in an audio waterfall.

This notation from a reader:

Date: Thu, two Oct 1997 11:12:50 -0500
From: "Jonathan T. Beers"
Subject: "double-due east" train lyrics
Bob Dylan's "It Takes A Lot to Laugh, Information technology Takes A Railroad train to Weep" includes the lyric: "Don't the brakeman look skillful, Ma, flaggin' down the double-east...."
Somehow, the China Cat lyric, "double-e waterfall" doesn't experience train related to me. Non certain what it connotates to me, though. Somehow related to the E-cord on a guitar, maybe?

And this note from a reader:

Subject: the double E
Date: Wed, thirteen May 1998 18:07:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Candice Y Lin

David

How-do-you-do, I was in the Expressionless class that you visited at UCSC. Thank you for coming, I found you to be a most entertaining and interesting guest. I talked to my boy friend's dad, who's a train fanatic, almost the mysterious double Eastward. I'g sure you've already come with this explanation, but we idea information technology meant the Evening Express train. Anyway, thanks for coming, I work at a library too.

Candice Lin

Another:

Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 21:24:23 -0800
From: "Roserunner (Scott Baldwin)"
Subject area: China Cat

Wonderful site!

I've meditated many times on the lyrics of various Dead songs. Your site adds insight to several of them.

I accept a thought nigh the mysterious Double Due east Waterfall in China Cat Sunflower.

We all know Hunter is mightily interested in the Old West. A railroad buff one time told me that a very popular train guage in the W of the 1880s was a Double East Guage. All trains of the period had steam engines. The boiler for those engines was stoked by a fireman. It was a hot job. Especially during the summertime. Every once in a while, the railroad train would stop at a water tower, to refill the water property tank for the boiler. The mechanism for the refill involved a boom attached to a water belfry. A hose dangled from the end of the blast, to provide some direction to the h2o. The hot sweaty fireman would swing the nail over the opening for the holding tank, pull the cord and let the h2o pour downwards. When the tank was total, he would close the valve, and swing the boom dorsum out of the way.

My idea is that sometimes a fireman would pause, pull the string for a moment, and let the water cascade over him, providing great pleasure. As Jerry said "All the gold yummies, for SECONDS at a time!" That water cascading from the train water tower sure seems like a "Double-E waterfall over my back" to me :)

Just my $.02.

Thank you for the great site.

Happy trails,
Roserunner

And this note from Dave Manoni, pointing to a guitary teaching site that tells of a chord called the Double E:

David,

I was curious about the Double-E in China True cat. I went looking effectually and found this:

http://world wide web.mentalgiant.com/lesson_22.htm.

Accept it easy.

Dave

Some other theory:

Subject: Double eastward
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 19:04:34 -0500
From: "Trevor Balmer"

I wanted to cheers for all your work on the site. It is absolutely one of my favorites. I do have some other 'double e' reference point for the China Cat lyrics. Come across what y'all call back-

While in the Army I bought some Usa Savings Bonds. These bonds are designated every bit series EE bonds. A partial tie-in to The 'I'chiliad Uncle Sam' lyric from United states of america Blues? Thanks again!

Trevor in Georgia

This note from a reader:

Subject: Double E
Date: Tue, 30 April 2002 03:50:12 -0700
From: "Roger Stomperud"

Hello again David

About "China True cat Sunflower", the "double-due east" line, if it refers to trains, means (as far as I am concerned) the type of locomotive used past the train. General Motors and their EMD (their diesel loco division) had a series of 'covered railroad vehicle' locomotives begun in the late 1930'due south with the FT. This was a two truck, 4 axel 1500hp loco, and information technology was presently replaces by the F series, another two-T/4-A engine. For passenger service EMD developed the East series, a 2-truck, half dozen axel loco with more horsepower. So to me, double-eastward simply means a railroad train powered by 2 EMD Eastward serial locos.

The musician in me tells me that that has nothing to practise with the song. Information technology doesn't really make sense (Hunter and his cat were on Neptune when they wrote it, remember), but in music nosotros have double flats and double sharps. And and then there are double stops, perhaps more common to the violin family than the guitar, just used by both.

In "Box Of Rain" Hunter claims that he's never been asked the pregnant of his lyrics for Red china Cat Sunflower, just he has revealed scrap about where it comes from and the circumstances surrounding the writing them.

But rambling....
Roger Stomperud

And still more than mail on this line:

Engagement: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:58:10 -0400
From: Philip Eastward. Coyle
Subject: China Cat Sunflower--double e

Dearest David,
Here is my accept on "double e waterfall," which seems to me definitive:

The previous line refers to a "gold string fiddle," then I have always taken it that the "double-east" refers to the Southern Appalachian Mountain fiddling technique of playing a simultaneous "Eastward" on both your A and E strings. Thus the gilt-cord fiddle leads you to a musical waterfall, flowing over your back.
Ted Coyle
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Western Carolina University

And this:

Date: Wednesday, four October 2006 09:47:33 -0400
From: "Schellbach, Peter"
Subject: Double-eastward waterfall

I was exploring some trivia on your excellent site and got tied up on the interpretations of the "double-e" in CCS. The "double-East waterfall" has to exist the guitar itself. Two E strings (loftier and depression) and it's slung over one's back...

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eagle fly palace

Compare Hunter'south lyric "Invocation" from the Eagle Mall Suite:

"To the Eagle Palace with walls of water we came..."

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palace of the Queen Chinee

A quote from the Matriarch Edith Sitwell verse form "Trio for 2 Cats and a Trombone":

"To the jade 'Come kiss me harder'
He chosen across the battlements every bit she
Heard our voices thin and shrill
Every bit the steely grasses' thrill,
Or the sound of the onycha
When the phoca has the pica
In the palace of the Queen Chinee!"

See the full general footnote to a higher place, under the song'southward championship, for Hunter's comments on Sitwell'due south influence.

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Commencement posted: February, 1995
Last revised: October 12, 2006

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