Jerico-Redbone

[ti:Jerico] [ar:Redbone] [al:The Essential Redbone] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Jerico - Redbone [00:04.49]Lyrics by：L. Vegas/P. Vegas [00:08.99]Composed by：L. Vegas/P. Vegas [00:13.49]There's a neighbourhood on the edge of Fresno [00:19.68]Down by the old state road and the Suday Farm [00:25.92]The people there live in tents and cardboard lean-tos [00:32.35]The babies ain't got no shoes that's not funny [00:38.13]Jerico Jerico Jerico Jerico [00:56.18]When I was a boy growin' up in Fresno [01:02.73]The place that I called home was Jerico [01:09.01]My mama cooked with kerosene when she set the table [01:15.18]The babies drank bathed-in water sometimes Kool-Aid [01:21.39]Jerico Jerico Jerico Jerico [01:39.41]Kids would bust your lip if you wouldn't fight [01:45.63]Runnin' with my friends beggin' and stealin' [01:51.93]We'd hang out by the Honky-Tonk and roll a wino [01:58.64]The people in the church next door singin' thank you Jesus [02:04.09]Jerico Jerico Jerico Jerico [02:22.26]Wee Willie Young taught me to play the guitar [02:28.32]We used to play the blues 'til his life went bad [02:34.63]I started playin' in bars when I was fifteen [02:41.02]My younger brother Pat right there with me [02:46.77]Jerico Jerico Jerico Jerico [03:04.22]You think you're kinda rocky if you're Jerico [03:07.22]They are livin' in a hole down in Jerico [03:10.36]Killin' in the valley down in Jerico [03:13.78]All the pigs they're stickin' down in Jerico [03:17.02]And all the rootin' pickin' down in Jerico [03:20.03]And your mama and your papa down in Jerico [03:23.27]And you're here understandin' Jerico [03:26.24]Hippin' and stickin' down in Jerico [03:29.40]An' cookin' and a-kickin' down in Jerico [03:32.58]Cookin' in a chippy down in Jerico [03:35.36]When it was polk and wheat down in Jerico [03:38.62]And all the folk visit the Pen down in Jerico [03:41.58]It was funky as a doggie down in Jerico