When shadows fill the sky

And evil's all around

Don't call a preacher

A different creature

Bring the hoodoo down.

Beside a sacred fire

That's where he will be found.

Somewhere in Haiti

Baron Samedi

Bring the hoodoo down.



It's a river of blood

And a river of tears.

It's a river of Love.

I know you'll die to see

That zombie jamboree.

The dead will tango

Until the mambo

Bring the hoodoo down.



We're gonna learn to dance

And fall into a trance,

And picking cotton

Will be forgotten

Bring the hoodoo down.