Name: Cocaine Lil
Duration: P00H03M16S
Description: Re-imagining of of John Martyns 1967 track "Cocain" The main lyrics have been reverted back to the Poem Cocaine Lil and Morphine Sue by W.H Auden,that Martyns folk classic was derived from.

Cocaine Lil

from The way of the Shed by Tamatea Shed Project

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Re-imagining of of John Martyns 1967 track "Cocain" The main lyrics have been reverted back to the Poem Cocaine Lil and Morphine Sue by W.H Auden,that Martyns folk classic was derived from.

lyrics

Cocaine Lil and Morphine Sue
Did you ever hear about Cocaine Lil?
She lived in Cocaine town on Cocaine hill,
She had a cocaine dog and a cocaine cat,
They fought all night with a cocaine rat.

She had cocaine hair on her cocaine head.
She had a cocaine dress that was poppy red:
She wore a snowbird hat and sleigh-riding clothes,
On her coat she wore a crimson, cocaine rose.

Big gold chariots on the Milky Way,
Snakes and elephants silver and gray.
Oh the cocaine blues they make me sad,
Oh the cocaine blues make me feel bad.

Lil went to a snow party one cold night,
And the way she sniffed was sure a fright.
There was Hophead Mag with Dopey Slim,
Kankakee Liz and Yen Shee Jim.

There was Morphine Sue and the Poppy Face Kid,
Climbed up snow ladders and down they skid;
There was the Stepladder Kit, a good six feet,
And the Sleigh-riding Sister who were hard to beat.

Along in the morning about half past three
They were all lit up like a Christmas tree;
Lil got home and started for bed,
Took another sniff and it knocked her dead.

They laid her out in her cocaine clothes:
She wore a snowbird hat with a crimson rose;
On her headstone you’ll find this refrain:
She died as she lived, sniffing cocaine

credits

from The way of the Shed, released October 2, 2022
Performed, Recorded and produced by The Tamatea Shed Project: R & S Murphy Lyrics by W.H Auden and John Martyn Chords by John Martyn