"I Walk On Gilded Splinters" (Je Suis Le Grand Zombie) arrangement R Talley
Channel: Ron Talley
Date: 2014-10-14

This is on Dr. John's very first album if memory serves.  Long time ago.
Back in1972 while I attended the university in Lafayette, Louisiana, USL, one of my friends received a note written in blood, probably chicken blood. Scared him of course. He asked me to translate it for him as it was in French, very OLD French in fact which made it even more eerie. It read "Le Zombie vien pour tois. Jais te placee un gris gris. Tu va mourie bien sur." "I've sent the zombie for you. I've placed a curse on you. You will die to be sure." He spoke to the resident folklorist professor there. She told Bill that it could only work if he believed it would. Nothing happened to him; he didn't really believe in Voodoo. The psychoanalyst, Rollo May, among others, has found that Voodoo can and does work on those people who BELIEVE IN IT. Weird huh?


Ron