Lyrics: Robert Hunter
Music: Ron McKernan
I take a little powderNotes
I take a little salt
I put it in my shotgun
And I go walking out
Chorus
Chooba chooba (chooba chooba)
Wooly Bully (wooly bully) (note 1)
Looking high (looking high)
Looking low (looking low)
Gonna scare you up and shoot ya
'Cause Mister Charlie told me so
I won't even take your life
Won't even take a limb
Just unload my shotgun (note 2)
And take a little skin
[chorus]
Well you take a silver dollar
Take a silver dime
Mix it up together (note 3)
In some alligator wine
I can hear the drums
Voodoo all night long
Mister Charlie telling me
I can't do nothing wrong
[chorus]
Mister Charlie told me (note 4)
Thought you'd like to know
Give you a little warning
Before I let you go
[chorus]
Gonna scare you up and shoot you
Mister Charlie told me, Mister Charlie told me so
You collect your dollar
You collect your dime
You pack yourself a suitcase
And head on down the line
Phil Lesh and Friends Recordings | |||||
5 Jun 1999 | Love Will See You Through | ||||
18 May 2006 | Live At The Warfield | ||||
(Plus live recordings by The Dead, Furthur, Dead & Company, Ratdog, Phil Lesh & Friends etc not listed here. See Grateful Dead Family Discography for a full list.) | |||||
Other Recordings | |||||
Date | Album | Recorded By | |||
1991 | Knot Live | Slipknot | |||
1998 | 3-13-98 | Big Wu | |||
20 Jun 2004 | Live: Morrison, CO | Robert Hunter (note 7) | |||
2005 | Live At Berkner Hall | Great Caesar's Ghost with G.E.Smith | |||
2005 | Greatest Hits Of The Smoke-In, Vol.1 | Tom Constanten | |||
2007 | Blue Light Cheap Hotel | Wake The Dead | |||
2008 | South-Bound Freight Train | The Biscuit Rollers | |||
2008 | 30 Years | Jake's Leg | |||
30 Mar 2011 | Live: Visalia, CA | Chris Robinson Brotherhood (note 7) | |||
2012 | Good Time | The Mike Lucci Band | |||
2012 | Double Down Dead EP | Band Of Heathens | |||
2013 | Live | Dizzy Whoosh | |||
2015 | Songs Of Their Own | Leftover Salmon (note 7) | |||
2 Jul 2015 | Live: Chicago, IL | Infamous Stringdusters (note 7) | |||
11 Sep 2015 | Live: Pittsburg, PA | Greensky Bluegrass | |||
2015 | Grateful Jazz | Jazz Is Dead | |||
2019 | Phantom Ships With Phantom Sails | Live Dead '69 |