"Like a Mad Cow in a Floral Print Dress" is the first single off the Acoustic Cow album by Chris Durham. The whole album was written and recorded during a period when Chris was primarily playing guitar and trying to find that place between Blues and Bluegrass, between Rock and Folk, between serious and silly lyrics. This song uses the standard 'drop-d' tuning and the lyrics may sound a little like Chris dropped what John Lennon was rumored to have dropped when he wrote about Lucy in the Sky, but as it turns out, Chris can write nonsense without the aid of chemicals. Although he finds writing about himself in the third person to be a bit strange!
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