On to other chemicals. Alan Lomax writes this in his notes on "Willie the Weeper"... In this epoch, the snow-birds and hop-heads of the West had their own folky ballads, as optimistic and as unashamed as so many cowboy songs. "Take a Whiff on Me", "The Ballad of Cocaine Lil", and "Willie the Weeper", composed in the raggy style of those days, gave rise to a whole school of jazzy songs like "Minnie the Moocher" and " Calling the Vipers"...of "Willie the Weeper" he writes..."Robert Gordon found over thirty versions with a hundred different verses."

Alice in Montana