Elusive Butterfly is one of the defining songs of the Folk Rock movement in the US and UK during the mid-1960s. Initially, the song was released as the B-side to the single "Cheryl's Goin' Home" in late 1965. However, thanks to a Miami DJ who "flipped the disc" and played the track, it quickly became a transatlantic sensation. With its highly poetic lyrics, inspired by W. B. Yeats' poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus," "Elusive Butterfly" uses the metaphor of the "elusive butterfly" to represent