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Handa Wanda Part 2 - Wild Magnolias
Handa Wanda Part 2 4:03 Trk 11
Big Chief Bo Dollis & The Wild Magnolias
Recorded: Deep South Studio, Baton Rogue, LA.
Dec. 1, 1970 Tulane Jazz Festival.
Big Chief Bo Dollis - lead vocal & percus.
W.Tee - piano, & organ, J. Modeliste - drums, G. French - bass
Wild Magnolias Band: Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, J. Johnson Jr.
'Crip' Adams, 'Quarter Moon' Tobias, Gate Johnson, Bubba Scott
J. Smothers (all on vocals and percussion).
Album: 'Mardi Gras in New Orleans'
Mardi Gras Records MG1001 (1987)
Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com
alternate lyrics to Handa Wanda Part 1
*note
(fades in)
Irai bas q'ou-q'ou-wais
(Hando-wando, Mardi Gras)
Q'ou wais, we ready, ya'll be right
(Hando-wando, Mardi Gras)
We're prettiest in the City on the Mardi Gras
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
Say, qu t'faire hando, ma-hoo-d'an-ae
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
Well, tell me boy what the Injun's say?
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
Hey, a little bitty boy an a little bitty girl
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
On Mardi Gras mornin' they won't go wrong
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
Hey, come here boy, won't you stand by me?
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
I'm a pretty Big Chief you ever did see
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
Hey, I gotta wanda-han-d'an-d'ae
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
Said ring them drums on Mardi Gras day!
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
On Mardi Gras morn, it won't be long
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
Let um Injuns Rulers gonna sing their song
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
Go run get ya mama, papa, too
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
Hey, little bitty boy got Injun blues
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
Them all be runnin', right 'chere in town
(Handa, wando, Mardi Gras)
Hey boy, that mornin' we gonna prowl
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
T'ou ten dais bas q'ou
Hoo-irai, mou-mou
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
Real Injuns Rulers of Mardi Gras
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
Don't deny my name, I got my gang
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
Don't deny my name, I got my fame
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
Now, hey mou-mou, gon' hey ma-lo
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
Tell you was a little boy
And he wear a bow
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
Hey, ha-d'an-a-wanda-h'an dan-da-l'ae
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
Gon' tell my boy just what you say
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
Be the prettiest little City
Our whole gang reign
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
On Mardi Gras mornin'
Don't deny my name
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
Said, Golden Arrow, Creole Wild West
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
Hey, White Eagles gang
Boy, they say are best
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
Hey, the Wild Magnolias, in might come
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
When you lead me, boy I'll make them run
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
Hey, boy I'm ready, ya'll I'm right
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
I'm a Wild Magnolia on a Mardi Gras
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
Say, Rex is your Ruler Mardi Gras Day
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
But I'm an Injun Ruler make kill-a ways
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
Yeah, an-d'an roller, y'an-n'an-n'ae
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
Hey, boy is ya ready for the Mardi Gras Day?
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
Don't deny your name
You've got your gang
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
Don't deny your name
You got your fame
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
You're an Indian Ruler, don't give a damn!
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
Hey, hag-wa-Melinda, ha-boppa-r'ae
(Handa-wando, Mardi Gras)
Will, you tell me now what the Injun's say?
'Handa-wanda, Mardi Gras'
FADES-
Yeah, han-d'an-a-wanda-han-d'an-d'ae
(Hando-wando, Mardi Gras).
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*note of info - a few words/phrases such as
'Tou-wais, bas q'ou wais' (aka) 'Two Way Pak E Way'
and lines, Qu ten dais, (also Al la caille yo ko
and al la wille wai) were trnscrb by H. Wood
1973 as the Creole spelling for a rep. ad lib
on Jelly Roll Morton's 'Indian Song'.
More lyrics from Wild Magnolias
.: Fire Water
.: Handa Wanda - Part 1
.: Handa Wanda Part 2
.: New Suit
Click here for all the other lyrics of Wild Magnolias !
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