Cocaine Blues

Coc*ine Blues - 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 coc*ine

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 coc*ine

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 coc*ine

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 coc*ine

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 coc*ine