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Latest post Mon, Sep 14 2009 1:43 PM by Anonymous. 8 replies.
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Paultx
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Thu, 29 Jun 06 05:26 PM
That song appears with these two different titles: Voodoo Chile and Voodoo Child. The lyrics of Voodoo Chile starts with:
Well, Im a voodoo chile
Lord Im a voodoo chile
Well, Chile, AFAIK, is a South American country, then child seems to best fit the lyrics to me.
So why there is that "chile" thing? ![Thinking [*-)]](/emoticons/emotion-42.gif)
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doodles
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Fri, 30 Jun 06 04:29 PM
Of course, Jimi means 'child' and it just wouldn't sound right if he pronounced the word correctly. How many other rock songs do you know of that have words pronounced incorrectly? I can think of dozens..
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Sun, 02 Jul 06 12:47 AM
Yes; chile here = chil'. It's a black American pronunciation of "child".
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Paultx
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Fri, 07 Jul 06 11:13 PM
I found this at the Urban Dictionary:
chile
A predominantly southern variation of the word "child", meaning a juvenile person, either in the literal or figurative sense.
You best look after the chile, Brandy Jean.
Since BBCode isn't OK:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chile
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Anonymous,
1 yr 218 days ago
I was actually searching for the answer to this question myself, and just read on Wikipedia that "Voodoo Chile" is a 15 minute long recording, and "Voodoo Child" is basically part of that song, but was released as a seperate track also, "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)". So they're two different songs, one is part of the other.
Anonymous,
298 days ago
well the only reason i can see to call it chile is that the title is attempting to reflect the way Jimi actually says child. Because the song Highway Chile is the same way.
Anonymous,
248 days ago
it could also be noted that the old english "childe" means a wanderer or a exiled knight, which could easily have been bastardized into chile. This would fit both songs better than child, but raises questions about hendrix's knowledge of such obscure words.
Anonymous,
177 days ago
They are actualy two different songs. Voodoo Chile was just a realy long jam session. Jimi, Muddy Watters, and a few others. Voodoo Child is a portion of that song, modified to stand by itself. That is why it is called "slight return"
Anonymous,
70 days ago
there is a huge misconseption with these songs or mainly the (slight return) track
they're BOTH originally called Voodoo Chile
get a look at an old vinyl copy of the gatefold album and you'll see the track listings are printed on the inside beneath a large portrait of Hendrix Voodoo Chile is a 15 minute long blues jam and Voodoo Chile (slight return) is a bit over 5mins - not so much a section of the previous tune, but a completely different song with repeated melodies and hooks from the blues jam
i've no idea when people started calling it Voodoo Child (slight return), someone must've printed it once and like an urban myth, it's snowballed - even the official CD reissue of the album makes the same mistake but the older pressings of the album clearly title the songs the same think about this, if there were two different titles, (if one was Chile and one Child) why would the second have (slight return) stuck on the end ?
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