Butterfly Boys

Album: Exotic Birds and Fruit (1974)
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Songfacts®:

  • Like Pink Floyd's "Have A Cigar" and Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Workin' For MCA," "Butterfly Boys" is a mid-'70s dig at the band's record company, which in the case of Procol Harum, was Chrysalis, whose logo was a butterfly. While there is no doubt that record companies at the time could be any combination of greedy, stupid and evil, at least they let these songs appear on the band's albums. In later years, such overt attacks would become less common.

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