http://elvispelvis.com/hoytaxton.htm#obit
(great place - checkout the cause of death pages )

Sorry to admit it but, Gargoyle is probably right again.

Hoyt Axton had some problems and perhaps they affected this child.

Axton was married four times and divourced three.

Some of his biggest hits were songs about life in the drug culture:

No No Song

A lady that I know just came from Columbia
She smiled because I did not understand
Then she held out some marijuani ha-ha
She said it was the best in all the land
And I said:

No no no no, I don't smoke it no more
I'm tired of waking up on the floor
No, thank you, please,
It only makes me sneeze
And then it makes it hard to find the door

A woman that I know just came from Majorca Spain
She smiled because I did not understand
Then she held out a 10 pound bag of Cocaine
She said it was the best in all the land




The Pusher Man

You know I've smoked a lot of grass
O' Lord, I've popped a lot of pills
But I never touched nothin'
That my spirit could kill
You know, I've seen a lot of people walkin' 'round
With tombstones in their eyes
But the pusher don't care
Ah, if you live or if you die

God damn, The Pusher
God damn, I say The Pusher
I said God damn, God damn The Pusher man

You know the dealer, the dealer is a man
With the love grass in his hand
Oh but the pusher is a monster
Good God, he's not a natural man
The dealer for a nickel
Lord, will sell you lots of sweet dreams
Ah, but the pusher ruin your body
Lord, he'll leave your, he'll leave your mind to scream



Snowblind Friend

He said he wanted heaven
But praying was too slow
So he bought a one-way ticket
On the air line made of snow."


In 1997 police found slightly more than a pound of marijuana at Axton's home. Deborah Hawkins, whom Axton wed later that year, said she gave him marijuana because it relieved some of his anxiety and stress.

Axton was given a three-year deferred sentence and fined $15,000 for marijuana possession. Hawkins got a one-year deferred sentence and a $1,000


WHY WHERE the Montana Police searcing his home, anyway? Bad Montana police - bad police? Hardly!