Redbone: The Best Of Redbone

 

Record Info:

 

Manufactured: EPIC
Catalogue Number: EPC 65678
Released: 1973

Cover Photos: Kees De Jong
Cover Design: Ronald De Wit
Compiled by Guido Weyprecht

 

Side 1

 

We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee (3:25)
S. Baron – P. Vegas
(Blackwood Music, inc. / Novalene Music & Sandy Baron Music)

Poison Ivy (3:00)
J. Leiber – M. Stoller
(Tiger Music, Inc.)

Already Here (3:44)
L. Vegas
(Novalene Music & Blackwood Music, Inc.)

One Monkey (4:09)
L. Vegas
(April Music)

Niji Trance (3:27)
R. A. Bellamy – P. Vegas – L. Vegas
(April Music)

Condition Your Condition (2:51)
L. Vegas – P. Vegas – T. Bellamy
(Novalene Music & Blackwood Music, Inc)

 

Side 2

 

The Witch Queen Of New Orleans (2:45)
P. Vegas – L. Vegas
(April Music)

Jerico (3:47)
L. Vegas – P. Vegas
(April Music)

Message From A Drum (3:08)
P. Vegas
(April Music)

Maggie (2:50)
L. Vegas
(Novalene Music & Blackwood Music, Inc.)

Speakeasy (3:00)
L. Vegas
(Novalene Music & Blackwood Music, Inc.)

Fais-Do (2:36)
L. Vegas – P. Vegas
(Novalene Music & Blackwood Music, Inc.)
 


 

Record Sleeve Front

Record Sleeve Back

Record Label Side 1

Record Label Side 2

1.1 – We Were All Wounded At Wounded Knee

We were all wounded at Wounded Knee - you and me
We were all wounded at Wounded Knee - you and me
In the name of manifest destiny
You and me - you and me - you and me

They made us many promises but always broke their word
They penned us in like buffalo, drove us like a herd
And finally on the reservation
We were going for our preservation
We were all wiped out by the seventh cavalry
You and me - you and me

We were all wounded at Wounded Knee - you and me
We were all wounded at Wounded Knee - you and me
In the name of manifest destiny
You and me - you and me - you and me

Now we make our promises, we won't break our word
We'll sing, sing, sing out our story till the truth is heard
There's a whole new generation
Which will dream of veneration
Who were not wiped out by the seventh cavalry
You and me - you and me

We were all wounded at Wounded Knee - you and me
We were all wounded at Wounded Knee - you and me
We were all wounded - by Wounded Knee

1.2 – Poison Ivy

No Lyrics Available

1.3 – Already Here

No Lyrics Available

1.4 - One Monkey

No Lyrics Available

1.5 - Niji Trance

No Lyrics Available

1.6 – Condition Your Condition

You've twenty-twenty blindness
Yet sneaky as a rock
You're up to your neck in power
And full of B. S. jive

Your friends inflate your ego
Completely out of sight
I've got to get a message to you
Where can you be found

Use it, brother, don't abuse it
Condition your condition
Condition your condition
The latest word you're fixin'
Your body for your mind
Your family's heart is broken
And still you criticize

You put your trust in no one
And no one can trust you
I've got to let you know my friend
What it is, is what it is

Use it brother, don't abuse it
Condition your condition
Condition your condition
Dig where I'm coming from my friend
if you can be that

Condition your condition
Condition your condition
I'm just being upfront my friend
Why can't you see that
Condition your condition
Condition your condition
 

2.1 – The Witch Queen Of New Orleans

Marie Marie la voodoo veau
she'll put a spell on you.
Marie Marie la voodoo veau
she'll put a spell on you.
Marie Marie la voodoo veau
she's the witch-queen oh
of New Orleans
of New Orleans.

I'm gonna tell you a story
strange as it now seems
of zombie voodoo gris gris
and the witch-queen of New Orleans.
She lived in a magic
possessed by the devils skew
from a shack near the swamp lands
made of mud be brick.
Marie stirred her witches brew.

Marie Marie la voodoo veau
she'll put a spell on you.
Marie Marie la voodoo veau
she'll put a spell on you.
Marie Marie la voodoo veau
she's the witch-queen oh
of New Orleans
of New Orleans.

Dime or a nickel anyone could buy
voodoo of any kind
she had potions and lotions herb
and tanna leaves guaranteed to blow your mind
early one mornin' into mucky swamp dew
vanished Marie with hate in her eyes
tho' she'll never return all the cajuns knew
a witch-queen never dies.

Marie Marie la voodoo veau
she'll put a spell on you.
Marie Marie la voodoo veau
she'll put a spell on you.
Marie Marie la voodoo veau
she's the witch-queen oh
of New Orleans
of New Orleans.

2.2 – Jerico

No Lyrics
Available

2.3 – Message From A Drum

No Lyrics
Available

2.4 – Maggie

No Lyrics
Available

2.5 – Speakeasy

Night gave way and darkness fell
On the rivers of the man in white
Love begign, from place to place
To the rhythm of the train in Hell
Holding out their hands
Though hate denied them
Piercing all the way
To where I feel

Speakeasy, unfriendly
Here in no where
So far away from home
Speakeasy, where are you
Oh I wish I knew, I wish I knew.

Four young men, three red and brown
In the belly of the great white bird
Something lonely through the skin
In the kingdom of her majesty
Singing through my soul
I sought to touch them
Even though they took me
For a fool.

Speakeasy, unfriendly
Here in no where
So far awy from home
Speakeasy, where are you
Oh I wish I knew, I wish I knew.

Murmerings in foreign tongue
When they thought I couldn't understand
Smiling through their fear for real
For the faces of the living sob
Lacking was the honesty for reason
Seeing what it was
Just made me cry

Speakeasy, unfriendly
Here in no where
So far away from home
Speakeasy, where are you
Oh I wish I knew, I wish I knew...

2.6 – Fais-Do

Fais do-fais do, fais do-fais do
Fais do play the bambula beat - fais do-fais do
Fais do play it out in the street - fais do-fais do
Fais do do it like a bim-bam-boom
Fais do holler like a dog at moon
Dance under the voodoo moon
Dance out of your body's gloom
Dance into your spirit room
Dance, dance, dance

Fais do-fais do, fais do-fais do
Fais do, fais do music man - fais do-fais do
Whip it on me, whip it on me like you can - fais do-fais do
Fais do play bambula beat
Fais do oo-ma-boom-a-bim-bam-boom
Dance under the voodoo moon
Dance out of your body's gloom
Dance into your spirit room
Dance, dance, dance

Fais do-fais do, fais do-fais do
Fais do play the bambula beat - fais do-fais do
Fais do play it out in the street - fais do-fais do
Fais do do it like a bim-bam-boom
Fais do holler like a dog at moon
Dance under the voodoo moon
Dance out of your body's gloom
Dance into your spirit room
Dance, dance, dance

Fais do-fais do..................