Jason Myers Natives Carrying Some Guns, Bibles, Amorites on Safari Pharaoh’s Dance America Mix-Tape, Track One bio artist statement

Natives Carrying Some Guns, Bibles, Amorites on Safari

(1982)

See what
                        happened a long time ago in Haiti was
well now
                                    the French
and as you probably know
                                                but better keep it
            anyhow there are different accounts of this
                                    best to have your bayonet ready
who said gold
                        Sunday morning
                                                            coming down your mouth
or just a banana in your tarot reading
                                                                        skins, money, skins
                        Hoodoo, who dat?
Comment alleycat you do?

                        Oh that’s a great album
hoist that
                                    hose that
                                                                        who dat?
Dem creole come want free handout.
                                    Whosoever come let him will
his forty acre
                        preach, poacher
                                                            black flag
skullbones, dat
                                    Mr. Bonez him have purty voice.
Let him preach you.
                                                Converted to salt. to gold. tis of fee. of free.
Good money missionary
                                                dis me favorite position. fuck dem natives.
Cortez.
                        How I lost my way.
                                                            Mixed tape, mixed race.

Tssk tssk. Tuk-tuk. Tuttenkammen your tits like tusks.
            Tusk. Tusk. Tusk.
Don’t say that you love me.

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