China Cat Sunfloweri Know You Rider by Grateful Dead
Key: GG | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    


Verse
G                                     F
Look for a while at the China Cat sunflower,
G                                     F
Proud walking jingle in the midnight sun.
G                                F
Copperdome bodhi drip a silver kimono,
G                                                 F          G
Like a crazy quilt stargown through a dream like wind.
[Solo]
G - F x         
D D D D    C D 
Verse 2
G                                     F
Crazy cat peekin' through a lace bandanna,
G                                              F
Like a one-eyed Cheshire, like a diamond-eye jack.
G                                           F
A leaf of all colors plays a golden-string fiddle,
G                                 F
To a double-E waterfall over my back.
G  F x4         
D D D      C   D 
[Solo]
E   D                 
B x3
A   B 
G                                     F
Comic book colors on a violin river Cryin' Leonardo,
G                                     F
Words from out a silk trombone.
G                                     F
I rang a silent bell, beneath a shower of pearls,
G                                     F
In the eagle-winged palace of the Queen Chinee.
G    F x4         
D D D      C D 
I Know you Rider:
D                        C       G       D
I know you rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone;
D                        C       G       D
I know you rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone;
      F          C          F       C   F    D
Gonna miss your baby, from rollin' in your arms.
D
D                              C       G       D
Lay down last night, Lord I could not take my rest;
D                              C       G       D
Lay down last night, Lord I could not take my rest;
    F        C                  F         C   F    D
My mind was wanderin' like the wild geese in the west.
[Solo]
D                        C       G       D x3
F          C          F       C   F    D
D                        C       G       D
The sun will shine in my back door someday;
D                        C       G       D
The sun will shine in my back door someday;
      F          C     F       C   F    D
March winds will blow all my troubles away.
D                          C       G       D
I wish I was a headlight, on a North bound train;
D                          C       G       D
I wish I was a headlight, on a North bound train;
F            C     F            C       F    D
I'd shine my light through the cool Colorado rain.
N.C.
I know you rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone;
I know you rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone;
Gonna miss your baby, from rollin' in your arms.