Thank you for attending the third night of Knees Calhoon's Countdown to Chaos. I hope to see you for the next 97 nights as each night you'll get a new re-mix of Knees' songs done up for more discriminating generations of music fans. Those scratchy old songs were fine for the 1950s but nowadays we want to hear every guitar goof or vocal screwup.
Written: Monterey Street,
Farmington NM, winter 1964
Another ripoff, this
time of Buddy Holly’s Not Fade Away. At least Knees added a chorus in
another time signature. This was the first Calhoon tune with a plot, albeit a
flaky one. Is there a hidden symbolism to the voodoo doll and bloody pin? Why
would a doll bleed? And what kind of do-gooder goes around leaving bloody
needles as his calling card? Calhoon never answers these questions. This was
Knees’ third song with lyrics and he was just still living up to a stupid pledge
to include the word “mojo” in all his songs.
Deep inna jungle way
cross the world
A witch doctor say “Hey
you needa girl?”
I say “Hey doctor
thassa what I need.”
He gave me a doll and
said “Make it bleed.”
I grabbed me a needle
an I stuck that doll
A girl comes up to me
says “You wanna ball?”
I say “Hey doctor
whatcha call this thing?”
He say “It’s a Mojo an
yo’re its king.”
I love my Mojo cuz he’s my man
My Mojo loves me cuz
I’m his hand.
I got my Mojo a-workin
on you
An you’ll be mine befo
he’s through.
Well, one of these days you’ll come to me
An maybe I’ll set my
Mojo free.
Or maybe I’ll give him
to a frien in need
An say “It’s a Mojo now
make it bleed.”
My little Mojo will go
on and on
Leavin love wherever
he’s gone,
An you can tell just
where he’s been
Cuz you’ll always find
a bloody pin.
Anneloid
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