COCAINE LIL

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 the cocaine rat.

She had cocaine hair on her cocaine had.

She wore a snow-bird hat and sleigh-riding clothes.

She had a cocaine dress that poppy red.

On her coat she wore a crimson, cocaine rose.

Big gold chariots on the Milky Way,

Snakes and elephants silver and gray,

O the cocaine blues they make me sad,

O 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 with Yen Shee Jim.

There was Hasheesh Nell and the Poppy Face Kid,

Climbed up snow ladders and down they slid;

There was Steoladder Kit, he stood six feet,

And the Sleighriding Sisters that are hard to beat.

Along in the morning about haf-past three

They were all lit up like a Christmas tree;

Lil got home and started to go to bed,

Took another “sniff” and it knocked her dead.

They laid her out in her cocaine clothes.

She wore a snow-bird hat and a crimson rose;

On her headstone you’ll find this refrain:

“She died as she lived, sniffing cocaine.”

Autor nieznany.

Chicago-Detroit, koniec XIX wieku.