“She went around with a cat named Smokey
She loved him even though he was cokey.”
“Minnie the Moocher”-Cab Calloway
(As you might expect, the Rolling Stones are a rich source of material for this thread…)
Sweet cousin cocaine,
lay your cool cool hands on my head
Ah come on,
Sister Morphine, you better make up my bed
'Cause you know and I know
in the morning I’ll be dead
You can sit around and you can watch
all the clean white sheets stained red.
Sister Morphine - Rolling Stones
And there will always be a space in my parking lot
When you need a little coke and sympathy
Let It Bleed - Rolling Stones
and from Beck…
one’s got on the pole shove the other in a bag
with the rerun shows and the cocaine nose job
Loser - Beck
He said he wanted heaven but prayin’ was too slow
So he bought a one-way ticket on an airline made of snow
Did you say you saw your good friend flyin’ low
Snowblind Friend - Hoyt Axton
http://lyricsheaven.topcities.com/survey_d_k_bestanden/Hoyt_Axton.htm
He took her down to Chinatown,
Showed her how to kick the gong around.
C is for Coke,
Not addictive, you say.
You just use it to “cope”
Twenty times ev’ry day.
- MAD Magazine, "The ABC of Drugs"White honey,
get it from the candyman,
White honey,
any time I think I can
- Graham Parker
May the bird of paradise fly up your nose
- Neal Merrit recorded by Little Jimmy Dickens
Can’t get enough of sweet cocaine
Get enough of Mary Jane
I’m going on back where I come from
Going running back home again
- From ‘Over the Hill’ by John Martyn
Standin’ on the conrer of Fourth and Main
Tryin’ to score some good cocaine
Hey, Hey Baby take a whiff on me
- “Take A Whiff On Me” by Leadbelly, but I know it from the Byrds.
Charle’s enormous nose, well, it’s all white
The girl got a very large nose, but it’s all white
It once was oaky
But she been blowin’ it quite a bit
- “Charlie’s Enormous Nose” by Frank Zappa
“The first two lines were great, but the next ten years were hell.” - Don Imus
Off the ass of Bianca Jagger at Club 54 in 1977.
whoa, what a rush that was.
“It’s the 80s! Do a lot of coke and vote for Ronald Reagan!”
-Mike Nelson
“This is how much pure cocaine you’d need to enjoy this movie.”
-Mike Nelson
They say cocaine’s for horses
And not for men
They say it’s gonna kill me
But they don’t say when
Cocaine
Runnin’ all 'round my brain
Traditional
“They say cocaine intesifies your personality. But what if you’re an asshole?”
–Bill Cosby
You went uptown riding in your limousine
In your fine Park Avenue clothes
You had a Dom Perignon in your hand
And a spoon up your nose
- Billy Joel, Big Shot
You take Sally,
I’ll take Jane,
I’m looking for that girl that sells cocaine
Cocaine
Running all 'round my brain
Well, I went down to my doctor
He said son, it says here you’re 27
But that’s impossible
You look like you could be…45
JB: I’ve got to take either more of it or less of it, I can’t decide.
David Lindley: It takes a clear mind.
JB: To take more of it of less of it?
DL: No…it takes a clear mind…to make it.
Tallulah Bankhead: Cocaine isn’t addictive. I should know, I’ve been taking it for years.