Codine Blues (Listen to sample)

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1. And my belly is craving, I got a shakin' in my head,

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feel like I'm dyin' and I wish I was dead.

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If I lived till tomorrow that’ll be a long time,

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but I'll reel and I'll fall and rise on codine,

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and it's real, and it's real, one more time.

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2. Well, when I was a young girl I learned not to care,

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got whiskey, confronted, I often did swear.

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My mother and father said whiskey is a curse,

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but the fate of their baby was many times worse,

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and it's real, and it's real, one more time.

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3. Stay away from the cities, stay away from the towns,

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stay away from the men pushin' the codine around.

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Stay away from the stores where the remedy is found,

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for better your pain than because of codine.

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and it's real, and it's real, one more time.

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3. You'll forget you’re a woman, you'll forget about man,

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try it just once, and you'll try it again.

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You’ll forget about life, you’ll forget about time,

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and you will live all your days as a slave to codeine.

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and it's real, and it's real, one more time.

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4. But if I die tomorrow, still one thing I’ve done,

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I’d heeded the warning that I got when I was young.

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My one satisfaction that comes when I say

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That I'm living my life with abandon to drink

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and it's real, and it's real, one more time.

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6. And my belly is craving, I got a shaking in my head

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I feel like I'm dyin' and I wish I was dead.

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If I live till tomorrow that’ll be a long time,

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for I'll reel and I'll fall and I’ll die on codine,

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and it's real, and it's real, one more time.

(orig. = capo 1st) (Buffy Sainte-Marie)