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Thread #11325   Message #4135721
Posted By: Jim Dixon
07-Feb-22 - 11:42 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Songs about cocaine
Subject: Lyr Add: COCAINE JANE (Sam Gill, Edward Riley)
From the sheet music at Baylor University:


COCAINE JANE [1] or CO-CAINE JANE [2]
Words by Sam Gill, music by Edward Riley, ©1925.

1. She landed in the city one ev’ning on a train,
Just a simple country lass; her name was Mary Jane.
No loving friend to greet her; you’ve heard the tale before:
A stranger there to meet her, she fell to rise no more.
It’s the same old story over again; now ev’rybody calls her Cocaine Jane.

CHORUS: Cocaine Jane, Cocaine Jane,
She lives in Cocaine Lane.
In a cocaine flat, with a cocaine cat,
She chases the cocaine rat.
Smiling with a cocaine grin,
She’s full of cocaine sin.
Snow has drifted on her brain.
Now ev’rybody calls her Cocaine Jane.

2. Now isn’t it a pity? In Cocaine Lane, they say
That she chases cocaine rats around the flat all day.
Her cocaine cat he helps her, for she has rats galore,
And stranger things torment her, so let us tell no more.
It’s the same old story over again; now ev’rybody calls her Cocaine Jane.

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1 Title as given on the sheet music cover.
2 Title as given on the first page of the sheet music. Baylor University has it cataloged as CO-CAINE JANE, but a search for COCAINE JANE will find it.