And, my birthday is in March, which means I made it again, and those March winds will blow all my troubles away. Those images are religious and again hopeful. But it’s the closing line in this verse that means everything to me, “The March winds will blow all my troubles away.” Now I love this line because March is the spring equinox, and spring emerges from winter, and March rushes in like a lion, but leaves like a lamb. We need this more than ever in a world of craziness.
It’s an affirmation of better days, and the belief that there are more to come. It repeats the same line twice, as does each verse, and notes that the “sun will shine in my back door some day.” I love this line because it connotes hopefulness, especially in today’s world. The second verse is my favorite for several reasons, mostly because of its optimism. You don’t have to be out west to appreciate this image. The first stanza talks about laying down, trying to get some rest, but a wandering mind prevents that, and the verse uses the image of an unfocused mind as “wandering wild geese in the west.” I often think of those words as I drive around the circle at Riis Park with its gaggle of Canadian geese feeding on the grass. “I Know You Rider” begins with that phrase, and goes on to state, “you are going to miss me when I’m gone.” This chorus repeats throughout the song. Its lead in song is China Cat Sunflower and the music that sews the two songs together, in my opinion, is an orchestral piece of genius by Bob Weir, the Dead’s survivor. While some of that is true, the band mined the annals of traditional, folk, blues and country music and made them masterpieces to a new generation. Most non-Grateful Dead fans usually write the band off as a bunch of druggies with some spaced out music from the psychedelic sixties. It's been recorded by a lot of artists, but is probably best known as the second half of a two-song duo by the Grateful Dead. Its final performance was on July 8, 1995, at Soldier Field, in Chicago.The song “I Know You Rider” has a long history and can be traced back into the early 20th century as a traditional blues and folk song. 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. In an interview in Golden Road (Spring, 1991, p. "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
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