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Thread #45180   Message #3586997
Posted By: GUEST,Jimbo
27-Dec-13 - 05:30 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Danger Waters - story behind the song?
Subject: RE: Help: Danger Waters - story behind the song?
Was too curious so ended up buying the track from cdbaby

Here are more complete lyrics (many of the lines are repeated 4 or 5 times after each other). Also I'm not sure of the accuracy and there was one word I couldn't understand.

hold me tight
danger water coming baby
hold me tight

and he holler why
tortoise boy non mon ami
me go by you slippers
me go buy you shimmy
and i tell you say
make yo mommy no know
and i tell her say
make me go no home
and we lay on sofa make her get me labor
and the other wine*4
"tortoise boy no mon ami..."

give me back my shilling
you can still [?] make it
give me back my shilling

and i gie em one
and i gie em two
way I gie em three time
he holler lord have mercy (and) (repeat)
tortoise boy non mon ami

hold me tight
danger water coming baby
hold me tight