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Butterfly

Song Category: Unreleased
Times Fully Played: 21
Live Releases: 4
Broadcasts: 1
Date Last Played: 2.15.20 (1494 days ago)
Shortest Version: 1:37 (07.11.14)
Longest Version: 3:53 (12.20.03)

Tease Count : 11

Encore Count : 6
Caterpillar's dream to fly
Composer
Matthews (2005)
Song History
First appearing on the Dave and Friends 2003 Winter Tour, Butterfly is a lullaby-like song Dave wrote while filming for “Because of Winn Dixie” and says he, “was thinking about my little girls”(01.16.2004). It was played sparingly until achieving moderate success towards the end of the 2006 Summer Tour as a Dave solo encore opener. Dave encourages listeners to live life despite the sudden and often harsh bumps in the road.

Although it does not appear on the film’s soundtrack album, a recording of the song was released on a CD sent to Academy voters for Oscar consideration for Best Original song.
Color Legend
Show Type
Dave & Friends  (2)
Dave & Tim  (1)
Dave Solo  (3)
DMB  (26)
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
12.20
2004
1.16
1.28
tease
tease
9.18
2005
tease
tease
tease
tease
9.11
tease
2006
tease
tease
8.26
9.2
9.13
9.23
2007
8.28
9.2
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
tease
2014
tease
7.11
2015
6.5
6.6
6.10
6.12
6.26
7.8
9.12
2016
2017
2018
9.2
2019
2020
2.15
2021
2022
2023
2024
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