IKO IKO????

[bucky_haight]

Can somebody show where I can find the lyrics to "Iko Iko", by the
Dixiecups?i heard this song while I was 1/2 asleep and it was stuck in
my head all weekend;the only thing worse than a song you can't get out
of your head is a song 1/2 remembered that won't leave your head!
Thanx in advance!

--
Three Can Keep A Secret If Two Are Dead

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[Childuf60s]

Iko Iko

"The song was written and recorded back in the early 1950s by a New Orleans
singer named James Crawford who worked under the name of Sugar Boy & the Cane
Cutters. It
was recorded in the 1960s by the Dixie Cups for Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller's
Red Bird
label, but the format we're following here is Sugar Boy's original. Also in the
group were
Professor Longhair on piano, Jake Myles, Big Boy Myles, Irv Bannister on
guitar,
style during Mardi Gras. That's dead and gone because there's a freeway where
those grounds used to
be. The tribes were like social clubs who lived all year for Mardi Gras,
getting their costumes
together. Many of them were musicians, gamblers, hustlers and pimps."

(This comes from David Cederstrom)

Lyrics

My grand-ma and your grand-ma were
Sit-tin' by the fire. - My grand-ma told
Your grand-ma: "I'm gon-na set your flag on fire."--

Chorus:
Talk-in' 'bout, Hey now ! Hey now ! I-KO, I-KO, un-day
Jock-a-mo fee-no ai na-né. - Jock-a-mo fee na-né.-

Look at my king all dressed in red.-
I-KO, I-KO, un-day. I bet-cha five dol-lars he'll kill you dead.--
Jock-a-mo fee na-né

(Repeat Chorus)

My flag boy and your flag boy were
sit-tin' by the fire. - My flag boy told
Your flag boy: "I'm gon-na set your flag on fire."

(Repeat Chorus)

See that guy all dressed in green ? -
I-KO, I-KO, un-day. He's not a man;
He's a lov-in' ma-chine.--
Jock-a mo fee na-né.--

(Repeat Chorus)

€ 1964 Arc Music Corp., Melder Publishing Company and Trio Music Co., Inc.
(adm. by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.) (BMI)
All Rights Reserved

[Mark L. Levinson]

This is from http://ingeb.org/songs/mygrandm.html :

Iko Iko

Melody - "Jockamo" James Crawford, ~1950, New Orleans

James Crawford

My grandma and your grandma
Were sittin' by the fire.
My grandma told your grandma:
"I'm gonna set your flag on fire."

Chorus:
Talkin' 'bout: Hey now! Hey now!
Iko, Iko, unday
Jockamo feeno ai nané.
Jockamo fee nané.

Look at my king all dressed in red.

Iko, Iko, unday.
I betcha five dollars he'll kill you dead.
Jockamo fee nané
Chorus:

My flag boy and your flag boy

Were sittin' by the fire.
My flag boy told your flag boy:
"I'm gonna set your flag on fire."
Chorus:

See that guy all dressed in green ?

Iko, Iko, unday. He's not a man;
He's a lovin' machine.
Jockamo fee nané.
Chorus: