Voodoo Soul, by Dr. Marigaux

Voodoo Soul

by Dr. Marigaux

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1.	Intro 01:40		buy track
2.	Babylon 03:05	lyrics	buy track
Well you can sit down or you can stand up drink a little wine from a sanctified cup Looking at a beast comin’ out of the sea Pretty lady says “Looky at me” It was a revelation trials and tribulation Annunciations theses are the tales of Babylon Well you can stand up or you can set down You can wear a smile or you can wear an frown Big fat beast seven heads and ten horns Lady on the beast looks like devil spawn It was a revelation trials and tribulation Mystical aberrations theses are the tales of Babylon Well along can an angle with a trumpet and a seal put one foot on the lands and the other on the sea Bablyon is fallen down in to the sea It’s the wine of her passion and her immorality It was a revelation trials and tribulation False creation theses are the tales of Babylon you can come in or you can go out I saw strings things and I heard a voice shout Words of comfort and words of warning Tales of saints and devils spawning It was a revelation trials and tribulation it was degeneration theses are the tales of Babylon
3.	Life is Hard 04:36	lyrics	buy track
Let me tell you a thing or two about life. I got a thing or two I know that I can share with you. Let me tell you that life is hard. Yeah, life is hard, down in the mine. You got yours, I got mine. And Life? Well, life is hard. When life gets hard, you got go down in the mine. The mine of your eternal soul. you gotta do some mining. Gotta dig out some toughness, drag that toughness out, carry it back up to the surface, 'cos life is hard. That's right, that's what you gotta do when life gets hard You gotta go down in your soul, dig out some toughness. Drag it back up. Get some tough love on your soul. Cos life? It ain't gonna change. And life is hard. And no matter what you say or do, ain't no excuses apply to you.
4.	J'ai été Monté 03:16	lyrics	buy track
J’ai été monté (I’ve been ridden) J’ai été monté J’ai été monté Ce Soir le Baron monter (tonight the baron will ride) Je suis Li Grand Zombi Parle parle qu’est que c’est Santaria et Elegua Maman Brigitte et le orisha San Patricio avait la bible (Saint Patrick had the Bible) Et sept livres de Moïse (and seven books of Moses) Marie Levuea herbe a cinq doigts (Marie Levuea and five finger grass) Jimson herbe et le chat noir (Jimson Weed and the black cat) Parle parle qu’est que c’est Cest bon cest bon merci aufait (it’s good, it’s good, thanks and by the way) pour votre grigris, vous devez payer (for your GrisGris you need to pay) pour faire ce que vous voulez (to do whatever you want)
5.	Hemi 265 03:32	lyrics	buy track
Hemi Hemi, Six in line Open her up and she’ll rocket real fine a purple charger in the desert road snow Two hundred horses say goodbye to dog roll Two hundred horses say goodbye to dog roll Two hundred horses say goodby Hemi Hemi 265 Better than a slant six, we’re gonna drive Got a ticket in food, I’m on the go Two hundred horses say goodbye to dog roll Two hundred horses say goodbye to dog roll Two hundred horses say goodby A car like this, it gets in your head She guzzles gas and she like it with lead put your foot on the floor and your line in the red Got a six pack or lion and your line in the red got a 4.3 that’ll leave you for dead Heading on south out of Rangipo Two hundred horses say goodbye to dog roll Two hundred horses say goodbye to dog roll Two hundred horses say goodby
6.	Redemption 04:19	info	buy track
7.	Better in Dunedin 02:37	lyrics	buy track
We'll get a nightcap in Nightcaps And take a right turn at Clyde Things will be better in Dunedin. I'll listen to you talk, and I'll wear better clothes. I'll find a better school for our better kids to go. Driving through the night On a Queenstown honeymoon Driving down the Pig Route We'll be in Palmy soon And we'll get a glass of wine at Nova and have a house on Maori Hill Things will be better in Dunedin. I'll find a better job a better job with better pay. Things are gonna be different, I'll make sure they stay that way.
8.	Jeanne Moreau 02:56	info	buy track
9.	Interlude 01:12		buy track
10.	Mariana 05:49	lyrics	buy track
Marianna / you’re such a deep deep woman (repeat) I’ll never see the bottom, never see the bottom of you. Cold / cold grey waves I’ll never see the bottom, never see the bottom of you. Looking at the water, thinking about your trench I bet you’re wearing a trench coat I’ll never see the bottom, never see the bottom of you. Marianna / you’re such a deep deep woman I’ll never see the bottom, never see the bottom of you.
11.	Southern Ocean Time 03:39	lyrics	buy track
There’s people in the ocean wearing them concrete shoes They keep it all hushed up you won’t read it in the news They’re talking to the fishes Spinning them a line That’s what’s down below in Southern Ocean Time There’s fishes in the ocean There’s fishes in the sea It’s might quiet down there It’s as quiet as it can be So if you’re goin’ fishing and something snags your line It might be someone you know, in Southern Ocean Time There’s little fish and big fish and the big fish eat the small they’s eat you too you know no matter short nor tall So if you are sitting by the sea side drinking your tequila and your lime have a thought for what’s down below in Southern Ocean Time If you’re looking at the surface wondering what’s down deep deep down deep below where all the fishes sleep It’s a mighty necropolis of people with no shine That’s what’s down below in Southern Ocean Time
12.	Port Chalmers in the Moonlight 02:22	lyrics	buy track
Pendulum swings from left to right Filipino seamen getting tight Buying up candy in the new four square Port Chalmers in the light of the moon Chinese kids in the port fish supply Heavy trucks rumbling by There’s a do up in the pioneer hall Port Chalmers in the light of the moon Nothing on in the tunnel hotel no rock and roll since chicks closed down Barking fish and two gypsies Port Chalmers in the light of the moon Iona church is telling time Empty cop shop cos there is no crime Lights falling on the container booms Port Chalmers in the light of the moon
13.	Minnie Deran 03:38	lyrics	buy track
Well they used to say to bad children, they’d say Minnie Dean will carry you away She’d a mean and nasty, cruel and evil and the grass don’t even grow on her grave. Well, she was a cold woman and people didn’t really like her very much. when the pig farming failed she took to farming babies. she was’t too good at that either and a lot of the babies died just like the pigs. Well they saw her get on a train with a baby and a hat box. Somewhere along that train ride the child disappeared. So they dug up her garden and they found skeletons in her closet It was an accident she said. I just hid the bodies. Well the judge said that she was either innocent or guilty as sin People understood that he meant the latter so they took her out and hanged her in a carpark in front of the Noel Leeming store People who couldn’t see from the back, they went inside the store and watched it all on 42 inch plasma TVs They said it was just like being there.
14.	The Western Swing 03:54	lyrics	buy track
Little Laura was a tango girl / She liked to jitterbug She liked to dance all night / she liked to cut a rug and she would tango all night long She’d do the western swing / till the rising sun Let’s do the western, the western swing Let’s do the western, the western swing Rhumba Rhumba, cha cha cha cha cha Frug. She’d do the Lambeth walk / She’d do the boogaloo She’d do the tighten up / make a monkey out of you and she would tango all night long She’d shim sham shimmy / till the rising sun She’d do the Lindy Hop and the locomotion Watusi shimmy shimmy mashed potatoes and the swim and she would tango all night long She’d shim sham shimmy / till the rising sun
15.	Eloisa on Fire 08:36		buy track
16.	Groove in the Night 03:47	lyrics	buy track
Forty Tonne gorilla Ninety five years old He don’t follow orders, He don’t do what he’s told Forty Ton Gorilla Smashing through the town Likes to eat Toyatas And tearing buildings down It’s a groove In the night With the full moon Shining bright Living in Dunedin Got to make a choice A forty tonne Gorilla Will mess up all your toys A forty Ton Gorilla Makes an awful nose Likes to holler out these words With that monkey voice
17.	Another Interlude 00:40		buy track
18.	Another Kind of South 07:03	lyrics	buy track
it’s another kind, another kind It’s another kind of south Well as soon as you hear the word south I can tell what you are thinking You’re thinking about how the Mississippi river rolls down between Arkansas and Mississippi past Robert Johnson and Howlin’ Wolf past Angola, past parchment farm past Bayous and antebellum mansions all the way down till it reach the gulf of mexico at New Orleans land of Louis Armstrong and Professor Long hair Dr. John and Jelly Roll Morton (There’s a man who had some stories) A land of Gumbo and fine food and lynchings and racial intolerance and some of the best tunes you ever heard. But that’s not what I’m talking about, I’m talking about a different place. A place that ain’t so hot. talking about a other kind of south. but I think you all are too norther hemisphere-centric - you only thinking of one hemisphere, but there’s another. Head on south cross that ocean. Cross the international date line you see down here we are so far ahead of you Americans we are always in tomorrow Head down through the tropics, down to New Zealand Head down state highway one, all the way down down till you reach the last decent city before Antartica it’s called Dunedin it’s another kind, another kind It’s another kind of south Well down here in Dunedin, we re happy. happy, happy , happy we’re so happy, we even got a longitudinal study that sows us how happy we are, and how happy we have been. We got Cheese rolls, we got Emerson’s beer. We got more bagpipes than all of Scotland happy, happy, happy. it’s another kind, another kind It’s another kind of south Well, we got libraries, art galleries and museums, and we got a zoo. well, we could have had a zoo except the animals would all freeze to death in winter, and that wouldn’t be much fun for anybody. Even in Summer you can sunbathe for about thirty minutes on one day in late January unless you wear a wet suit. Many people choose to wear wet suits when they sunbathe down here. helps to prevent the skin cancer. and let me tell you, there ain’t no pleasure greater than watching some namby-pamby northerner shivering and moaning about the cold on a warm Dunedin summers day it’s another kind, another kind It’s another kind of south

credits

released March 7, 2018

Dr. Marigaux (saxophones, vocals) Clare Adams, Neive Strang (Vocals) Alfie Gamble (trombone), Edvard Schreck (keyboards), Larry the Mole (bass), Benny Alien (drums) Bridgitte Guirjo (percussion). Composed and produced by Phil Davison. Recorded January~February 2018.