My favorite from the blues: Canned Heat by Tommy Johnson. Canned Heat was wood alcohol mixed with wax, used for cooking fuel and by some to ingest when they couldn't get whiskey. My CD player is broke so I can't transcribe all the words but some follow:

Cryin' Canned, Canned Heat mamma, Mamma sure Lord killin' me (3x)

Cryin' Mamma, mamma mamma, cryin' canned heat killing me (2x)
Cryin' canned heat don't, mamma, know I'll never die

Cryin' woke up, up this mornin' cryin' canned heat all on my mind (2x)
. Cryin' help somebody, can't take these canned heat blues

I had a friend at work, a talented musician I always wanted to get together with and learn from. But he died of alcoholism before we ever could. I think of him when I hear this song.