Cocaine Blues (4) (Luke Jordan) Oh go on, gal, don't you take me for no fool I'm not gonna quit you, pretty mama, while the weather's cool Around your back door, oh honey, I'm gonna creep As long as you make those two and a half a week Now I got a girl, she works in the white folk's yard She brings me meal, I can swear she brings me lard She brings me meat, she brings me lard She brings me everything, I swear, that she can steal Now Barn and Beale's (?) circus came to town, They had an elephant looking good and brown They did not know it was against the law For the monk(ey) to stop at a five drugstore Just around the corner, just a minute too late, Another one's standin' at the big back gate I'm simply wild about my good cocaine I called my Cora, hey hey She come on sniffin' with her nose all sore, The doctor swore (she's) gonna smell no more Sayin', run doctor, ring the bell - the women in the alley I'm simply wild about my good cocaine Now the furniture man came to my house, it was last Sunday morn He asked me was my wife at home and I told him she had long gone He backed his wagon up to my door, took everything I had He carried it back to the furniture store and I swear I did feel sad What in the world has anyone got for dealing with the furniture man If you got no dough, you stand no show, it's certain he'll back you back He'll take everything from an earthly plant, from a skillet to a frying pan If ever there was a devil born without any horns, It must have been a furniture man I called my Cora, hey hey She come on sniffin' with her nose all sore, Doctor swore (she's) gonna smell no more Sayin' coke's for horses, not women nor men The doctor said it will kill you, but he didn't say when I'm simply wild about my good cocaine Now the baby's in the cradle in New Orleans, it kept a-whippin' till it got so mean It kept a-whippin had to fix it so (indecipherable) Saying, run doctor, ring the bell - the women in the alley I'm simply wild about my good cocaine I called my Cora, hey hey She come on sniffin' with her nose all sore, The doctor swore (she's) gonna smell no more Sayin', run doctor, ring the bell - the women in the alley I'm simply wild about my good cocaine SOURCE: Luke Jordan 'Cocaine Blues' Vi 20176. Recorded Tuesday 16 August 1927 in Charlotte NC. Reissued on Various Artists 'The Roots of Rap' Yazoo CD 20218. Dick Justice recorded 'Cocaine Blues' on 20 May 1930 in Chicago Ill. It is reissued on 'Old-time Music from West Virginia' Document DOCD-8004. PS Oct00
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