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Thread #67060   Message #1538578
Posted By: PoppaGator
09-Aug-05 - 12:53 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Cocaine song (Tell It to Me)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cocaine song (Tell It to Me)
It may be a different tune than the better-known "Cocaine Blues" as sung by Rev. Gary Davis and further popularized by Dave Van Ronk, but the couplets scan the same so lyrics are pretty much interchangeable.

One of my favorite latter-day almost-rhyming elaborations:

The doctor axed me my age / when I went to the hospital
I told him, "twenty-nine, doc." / He said, "Son, that's impossible!"