"Hey Papa Legba"

Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin
Released as a UK B-side in 1982
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Lyrics provided with help from Grey Seal
He was the [county starlet] he had learned so well
Fourteen years is a long time in one cell
_________ the opium does its rounds
Papa Legba sitting pretty in a chicken little town

He stakes your skin like leather in the sun
Fingers beating hard upon a native drum
____ teeth ____ __________________
Papa Legba _________________ [things he leaves alone]

Hey Papa Legba, hooboo bedoo
Hey Papa Legba, no one gonna bother you
Hey Papa Legba, hooboo bedoo
Shake Papa Legba, no one's gonna bother you tonight, alright

He was free to dance alone when the spirits run
His lonely eyes would twinkle on a hundred suns
His champagne toast and want me on a spit
Papa Legba stronger with a smile upon his lips

© 1982 Big Pig Music Limited