Shoo Fly - Flaming Arrows
Shoo Fly 5:10 Trk 5:09
(trad.) new lyrics (K. Goodman)
The Flaming Arrows
Big Chief Kevin Goodman - lead vocal
M. Batiste - trumpet, J. Saulsbury - alto & tenor sax
& flute, B. Love - organ, H. Sterling & M. Tio - gtr
H. Scott, M. Venable - bass, E. Wimberly - drums
Ken 'Afro' Williams - congas, tambourine - unk
Album: Here Come The Indians
Mardi Gras Records #MG1036
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com



(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)

Hooray, that mornin', when the riverboat rolls
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
Goddamn, that morning is mighty cold
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
Say, talk about Indian, they talk about life
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
Put their name in a fib and add some hype
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)

Say, Mardi Gras mornin', New Orleans
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
Say, we hide our pistol where they can't be seen
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
Say, they talk about Indians and they don't know why
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
I'm 'on roll that number they call, 'Shoo Fly'
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
Say, Mardi Gras mornin', world'll know
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
Tell 'em, I'm here to tell 'em my story go
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)

I'm a shoo fly baby, from 112th
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
And on Mardi Gras mornin', boy, I raise hell
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
Say, Mardi Gras mornin', all over land
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
Say, Mardi Gras mornin' wit a big, big, band
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
I met shoo fly, Melinda and the Rolling Stones
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
Ev'ry Mardi Gras mornin' run after the Bones
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)

I talk to my daddy, my daddy say
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
Said, 'Look-it-here, Kevin, get on your way'
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
He said, 'Carry your gang, don't deny your name'
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
Ev'ry Mardi Gras mornin', got Arrows and Flames
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
I'm a Flaming Arrow, 'til the day I die
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
Ev'ry Mardi Gras mornin' I make shoo fly
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)

Say, shoo now fly, don't ya bother me
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
Say, shoo now fly, don't ya bother me
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
Say, 'cause I don't need no company
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
Say, they talk about Indians
They talk about life
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
Say, they talk about Indians
They talk about life
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
Say, I can treat 'em wrong
I can treat 'em right
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)

Say, they talk about Indians
From up and down
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
Say, they talk about Indians
From up and down
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
But they ain't never seen an Indian
That come downtown
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
Say, downtown own my ground
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
Say, downtown own my ground
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
Say, some wild Indian got a golden crown
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)

Well, I trade no feather, no dye, no plumes
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
Well, I trade no feather, no dye, no plumes
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
I been sewin' that mornin', like Daniel Boone
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)

(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)

(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)

(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)

(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)

(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)

(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)

Don't start no trouble
Won't be no war
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
Say, The Indians are Rulers
On a Mardi Gras
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
Say, Mardi Gras mornin'
'Bout the break of day
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
Say, the drums gonna roll
And I'm on my way
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)

Tell 'em, call all the Indians
On the telephone
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
Tell 'em, get yourself together
'Cause we leavin' home
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
Tell 'em, no where to run
And no where to hide
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
I got a reward to get 'em
Take 'em dead or live
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
Tell 'em I'm not worried
An I'm not scared
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)
Say, I plant that stick
In their goddamn head
(Shoo fly, don't bother me)

FADES

Say, I've been uptown, seventy times.

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