Hide The Bone is the sixth track on the first disc of Prince's 20th album Crystal Ball (his fourth using the name ). While the album is credited to , the album includes tracks credited to Prince and , but the liner notes' discussion of this track say "Recorded by The NPG", so it is credited to the band in this entry.
While specific recording dates are not known, initial tracking took place in mid-November 1993 at Guillaume Tell, Paris, France. It is not known how the original lyrics by Brenda Lee Eager and Hilliard Wilson were developed, as they had not worked with in any capacity previously (although they were later given writing credit on Somebody's Somebody). In 1994, a live version of the track was included on a planned "Live" single which was not released.
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