Iko Iko (jackomo)~ James "Sugar Boy" Crawford cover

[PichuABC]

this made me smile :D

i'm sick with what we believe is a stomach virus and strep throat...this made my day :D

[Nizpee]

Beautiful 

[aroshak]

This is soooo BRRRRRRIIILLLIENT......

[kaybear1919]

lol sweet!!!!

[MiiAzMiza]

nice job.

[SEVFEST]

Nice job my man : )

[sigreento]

That was too cool, Thanks for sharing.

[imasabo]

Great stuff..!!! Your continuity and playing impressed me. I EVEN started emjoying your voice !!!!! Many thanx

[marcello255]

koreckt my son's name is jackamo

[marcello255]

koreckt

[Jeylo95]

wonderful *-*

[diegogo1981]

Great cover ! thank you. Hi from Marseille, France

[mxrxnda]

This is my favorite version, I think. ♥

[madmodpo]

Great. Thanks.

[giacbira]

mi chiamo Giacomo e quindi ringrazio l'autore e chi l'ha messa e suonata.... Tank

[casetone2514]

@giacbira

Grazie, Giacomo.

[FuckStaub]

haha thats great

[casetone2514]

@FuckStaub

Thank you

[aaagi]

hahaha cool :D

[casetone2514]

@aaagi

Thank you

[DesertOmaRose]

Yea for you!! I love this song so much that I have several versions on my ipod. You make it look so easy. Love it!

[casetone2514]

Thank you

[ruedigersyt]

honestly, I think your voice is the best part of it (not to mention you master your instruments as well). I wonder what you'd sound like on stage with a piano and a bass backing you.

[casetone2514]

I don't know and probably never will.

Thank you

[3003bigo72]

you are the best, mate! Fantastic!

[casetone2514]

Thanks very much

[krido1997]

The chords are good but the way we sing it at school is different...

[casetone2514]

Thanks

Like most folk songs it was passed from generation to generation by singing and wasn't written down for many years. Hence, like chinese whispers, there are many different versions in existance at the end of the process.

If you search "oral tradition" or "folk etymology" on Google you will find out more about how this manifests itself.

[ps0u1159]

Great cover, I think a trip to vidtomp3 might even be in order.

[casetone2514]

Thanks

AnyVideoConverter is a freeware application I use. Converts most media files to any other format you want.

[ps0u1159]

I'll bear that in mind. You are now inside my iPod anyway.

[kolaasxd]

Good job man :-) love it

[casetone2514]

Thanks very much

[Rugratm16]

what cool lyrics!!

[casetone2514]

Thank you very much

[ACityOfFriends]

Good cover! I made a video on Iko Iko where people at the Mardi Gras Indians celebration in New Orleans try to sing the words. The song was originally a Mardi Gras Indian folk song that tells the story of two tribes coming together for a big fight. Even though the song is from New Orleans, very few people knew the words (the video is very funny.)

But you sing lyrics in your version that I've never even heard before. Where did you find them?

[casetone2514]

Thanks for the info - very interesting.

My version is a hotch-potch that I have come up with over the years based on Crawford's original, a bit of Dr. John and more Dixie Cups plus (believe it or not) my favourite version by an Australian guy called Rolf Harris. I thought that people would be interested in both the patois and anglicised lyrics.

[kennyt957]

GREAT FUN!! I'm doing a camp fire sing- a-long tomorrow night at out camp ground, and this will be perfect!! Thanks.

[casetone2514]

I hope you have a great time

[StubyStubyDoo]

Nice - I love the fact that your vids make smiles!

[casetone2514]

Life is too serious to take too seriously

[fijivolpe]

Love-Love-Love this, Great Fun, although I won't get this song out of my head for a week.

[casetone2514]

Thanks very much - at least as this song goes around in your head it puts a spring in your step.

[doogey9]

was jamming right along!.....ah fun 2 chord songs.....love em'!

cheers,

Todd

[casetone2514]

Thanks Todd - two chords and I still forget them.

[mctrmt]

Delightful!

[casetone2514]

Thanks M-A

[theBradlands]

Couldn't help but sing along with backing stuff.

Very fun song Tony!

[casetone2514]

Thanks Brad - everyone is welcome to sing along whenever they feel the urge.

[rightonpard]

You sure are versatile with a uke, I just don't know whats coming next, but it's always great!

[casetone2514]

Do you know, Mike, I rarely know what's coming next. I'll have a go at most requests (other than shut up) and I only have to hear a snippet of a song I like or remember a bit of a tune and I'm off.

[rightonpard]

What about doing Bill Bailey's "Unisex chipshop", it's a bit different and very funny!

[casetone2514]

Never heard of it but it sounds really good. Bizarrely, I've been working on an arrangement for THere's A Guy Works Down The Chipshop Swerars He's Elvis. How weird is that?

[rightonpard]

Spooky!

[UKISOCIETY]

Very cool!

[casetone2514]

Thank you - it is actually (and unusually for the UK) very hot at the moment.

[hoosierhiver]

I remember the Grateful Dead playing this one, but had no idea about the history. I remember someone telling me the lyrics were Japanese.

[casetone2514]

Hah. One of the complications of the types of music I like - folk, mainly - is the oral tradition distorts in a Chinese Whispers way from one telling/singing to the next - errors and all. There could be a whole town somewhere that is singing this thinking it's an ancient Japanese folk tune. I love it. Don't worry, I sang How Deep Is Your Love by the Bee Gees for years with the lyric: "and she comes to me on a submarine" instead of summer breeze.

Oh yeah. I digress. Thanks very much.

[Mbarnardexperience]

Fantastic! I may have to sneak into your house and steal those ukuleles though. Wow, I'm creepy!

[casetone2514]

That would be funny if you weren't in the UK - now I want to know exactly how close to me you live! ; )

Thanks for the comment and the reminder to lock all my doors and windows.

[Mbarnardexperience]

Ahahaha, I live in a small village called Knowle. No one locks their doors here :p .

[casetone2514]

I know it - just South of Brum. I also live in a town where nobody locks their doors - if they do, the local chavs just kick them in.

[Mbarnardexperience]

Really? You knowledgeable soul. Fortunately the population of this village consists of old people and very tame chavs. You know, the kind of ones that get drunk off apple juice?

[russbuss415]

fun performance Tony!  better watch your chicken wire.

[casetone2514]

I was going to ask Hoosierhiver Mike about that.

Thank you, Russ.

[EdMuirton]

Excellent rendition Tony! Enjoyed that! Cheers!

[casetone2514]

Cheers Ed

[UnluckyMum]

You are a proper mine of information too btw :)

[casetone2514]

Thanks. You missed out the word "useless" from that sentence.

[UnluckyMum]

Brilliant version !! Like that 'look' at the end !

[casetone2514]

Thanks. That was the "I think I got it right this time" look.

[jmmquah]

Thats in the favourites...was bopping along to you!

[casetone2514]

Thank you very much

[JTPokie]

I was singing the response, you hear me?

[UnluckyMum]

me too !

[casetone2514]

...oh, I did winder...

Thank you

[casetone2514]

Yeah, you and Deach - what a racket!

Thanks JT

[BaronK69]

Good times Tony!

[casetone2514]

Thanks Baron

[ukeshale]

Brilliant! - i expect nothing less.

Wikipedia - the most inaccurate 'encyclopedia' in the world.

There's far too many syllables in this comment.

[casetone2514]

Thanks Shane.

Ever wondered why the word,"monosyllabic" has so many syllables?

Ditz! ; )

[ukeshale]

cruel man! i knew you were gonna do something like that! haha

[casetone2514]

I am SO sorry, Shane. I do seem to pick on you, don't I. I promise an amnesty now.

[ukeshale]

an amnesty for an undefined period of time... probably until your next video :P

[casetone2514]

not probably. Maybe possibly if I don't forget.

[ukeshale]

brilliant! - i expect nothing less. Fantastic song choice, one of my favourites you've done.

Wikipedia has to be the most inaccurate 'encyclopedia' in the world.

There's far too many syllables in this comment...

[casetone2514]

Thanks Shane.

Ever wondered why the word,"monosyllabic" has so many syllables?

[deach69]

Very cool. Singing along with you!

[casetone2514]

Thanks - I wondered where that noise was coming from...; )

[kennymelodica]

wow ! 5*****

[casetone2514]

Thanks, Ken.

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

That was stunning, Tony. Just right.

[casetone2514]

Thanks, Ken.

[krabbers]

hey now hey now .

surperbe

[casetone2514]

my spy boy gonna set yo flag on fio

Merciiiii

[weegingayin]

Mardi Gras... I always thought it was just another name for a carnival but apparently it is french for "Fat Tuesday".

Last chance to gorge yourself on food before the season of Lent kicks in.

Great song by the way

[casetone2514]

That's right - in English we say Shrove Tuesday from the word Shrive which means to forgive or wipe away sin. Shrove Tuesday in the UK is also called Pancake Day. People used up their eggs and other ingredients prior to the fasting period of Lent. In parts of Britain they have pancake races or pancake tossing contests - a bit more sober than the Mardi Gras Carnival, eh? But the same celebration.