Reverend Gary Davis - Cocaine Blues video free download

John Wolfenden

Early one mornin' while makin' the rounds I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down I went right home and I went to bed I stuck that lovin' .44 beneath my head Got up next mornin' and I grabbed that gun Took a shot of cocaine and away I run Made a good run but I ran too slow They overtook me down in Juarez, Mexico Late in the hot joints takin' the pills In walked the sheriff from Jericho Hill He said Willy Lee your name is not Jack Brown You're the dirty heck that shot your woman down Said yes, oh yes my name is Willy Lee If you've got the warrant just a-read it to me Shot her down because she made me sore I thought I was her daddy but she had five moreWhen I was arrested I was dressed in black They put me on a train and they took me back Had no friend for to go my bail They slapped my dried up carcass in that county jail Early next mornin' bout a half past nine I spied the sheriff coming down the line Ah, and he coughed as he cleared his throat He said come on you dirty heck into that district court Into the courtroom my trial began Where I was handled by twelve honest men Just before the jury started out I saw the little judge commence to look about In about five minutes in walked the man Holding the verdict in his right hand The verdict read murder in the first degree I hollered Lawdy Lawdy, have a mercy on me The judge he smiled as he picked up his pen 99 years in the Folsom pen 99 years underneath that ground I can't forget the day I shot that bad bitch down Come on you've gotta listen unto me Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine bewww.youtube.com/watch?v=CPsOpJGBRNc

Günter Tauchner

COCAINE BLUES

Joseph Scott

"The song was first published by John Lomax in 1934 as 'Honey, Take a Whiff on Me'." No, E.C. Perrow included it 19 years earlier as "Take One On Me" in an article in the *Journal Of American Folk-Lore*, and it was in a 1925 book on black folk music by Dorothy Scarborough, and it was in a 1925 book on black folk music by Odum and Johnson, and it was in a 1926 book on folk culture by Frank Dobie. The Lomaxes get credited all the time with what they didn't do. Dobie's book had folk music researcher Will Thomas or his brother Gates Thomas, I forget which, writing that he'd known it since the 1890s.

bpalance

He wrote it as blind gary davis. after he became rev. he rarely used the lyrics

mkl62

May 5, 1972.

Christian Bonner

Keith Richards says he looked into it and the song probably dates back to the 1890's "when they first distilled the shit", says they Rev. stole it, but "stole it well".

Terry Monse

yes it is something isnt it ?

greggzmad

think it is his song originally yeah, been covered by so many greats. this version's lovely, never heard it before. His deep voice going real fragile...

KOSMOS390

cocaine is a hell of a drug!

MrBuk86

My Reverand! I love me some Gary Davis, singin' forever up on 115th in Harlem, an Heaven.

Dan Felsen

According to sources who were close to and learned from the Reverend, this song was an old medicine show song around the turn of the last century (That is, around 1900-1905).

WorldCitizen667

@tlm315 100% sure you're right!

WorldCitizen667

@tlm315 The song was first published by John Lomax in 1934 as "Honey, Take a Whiff on Me". Lomax stated that its origins were uncertain... Quote from wikipedia....

Jay Bligh

@TravMack1 nick drake does a good rendition of it

KEZANNA

I saw him in the 60's at the Cambridge Folk Festival ahhh those were the days . . .brilliant!

Vince Ceniceros

very cool..... now i know

Terry Monse

@TravMack1 thanks

Trav Mcintosh

@tlm315 pretty sure he did , its been rambled by a many though

21stCenturyBurnout

Yez Sir!

Terry Monse

correct me if im wrong...but didnt the rev.write this

Keith Richards

Keith Richards - Cocaine Blues