Redman
Collaborative performance/video created with Noelle Mason. This video includes the now problematic children's song "We are the Redman." This campfire song used to be associated with groups such as the Girl Guides, Boy Scouts, and Girl Scouts. The song is often sung in rounds, including hand motions and performative actions, like a "Redman."
TRADITIONAL LYRICS
We are Red Men
We are the Red Men, tall and quaint,
In our feathers and war paint,
Pow-wow, pow-wow,
We're the men of the Old Dun Cow.
All of us are Red Men,
Feathers-in-our-head-men,
Down-among-the-dead-men,
Pow-wow, pow-wow.
We can fight with sticks and stones,
Bows and arrows, slings and bones,
Pow-wow, pow-wow,
We're the men of the Old Dun Cow.
All of us are Red Men,
Feathers-in-our-head-men,
Down-among-the-dead-men,
Pow-wow, pow-wow.
We come back from hunts and wars,
Greeted by our long-nosed squaws,
Pow-wow, pow-wow,
We're the men of the Old Dun Cow.
All of us are Red Men,
Feathers-in-our-head-men,
Down-among-the-dead-men,
Pow-wow, pow-wow.
We like Girl Guides! Yes we do!
Eat their innards in a stew!
Pow-wow, pow-wow,
We're the men of the Old Dun Cow.
All of us are Red Men,
Feathers-in-our-head-men,
Down-among-the-dead-men,
Pow-wow, pow-wow.
Noelle's version
Pow-wow, pow-wow.
We are the men of the Longhorn Cow.
We are the Red Men,
Feathers in our headbands,
Down among the dead men,
Pow-wow.
We can fight with sticks and stones,
bows and arrows, bricks and bones.
Pow-wow, pow-wow.
Pow-wow, pow-wow.
We are the men of the Longhorn Cow.
We are the Red Men,
Feathers in our headbands,
Down among the dead men,
Pow-wow.