The song Cocaine Blues is performed by Woody Guthrie in the album named The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1-4 in the year 1999 .
Early one mornin' while making the rounds
I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down
Went right home and I went to bed
I stuck that lovin' .44 beneath my head
Got up the next morning and I grabbed my gun
took a shot of cocaine and away I run
Made a good run, but I run too slow -
they overtook me down in Juarez Mexico
Laid in the hot joint, takin' the pill
In walked the Sheriff from Jericho Hill
He said "Willie Lee, your name is not Jack Brown"
"You're the dirty hack that shot your woman down"
Yes, oh yes my name is Willie Lee
If you've got a warrant just read it to me
I shot her down 'cause she made me slow
I thought I was her daddy but she had five more
(Instrumental break)
When I was arrested, I was dressed in black
They put me on a train and they took me back
I had no friend for to go my bail
They slapped my doddered carca*s in that county jail
The next morning 'bout a half past nine
I spied a Sheriff comin' down the line
He kind of coughed as he cleared his throat
He said "Come on you dirty hack, to the district court"
Entered the courtroom, and my trial began
where I was held by twelve honest men
Just before the jury started out
I saw that dirty judge commence to look about
(Instrumental break)
In about five minutes, in walked a man
holding the verdict in his right hand
The verdict read "In the first degree.."
I hollered "Lordy, Lordy - have mercy on me!"
The judge smiled as he picked up his pen
"Ninety-nine years in the Folsom State Pen"
Ninety-nine years underneath that ground
I can't forget the day I shot that bad bitch down
Come on you've gotta listen up to me
"Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be!"
Woody Guthrie - The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1-4
- This Land is Your Land
- Car Song
- Rambling Round
- Talking Fishing Blues
- Philadelphia Lawyer
- Lindbergh
- Hobo's Lullaby
- Pastures of Plenty
- Grand Coulee Dam
- End of the Line
- New York Town
- Gypsy Davy
- Jesus Christ
- Do-Re-Mi
- Jarama Valley
- The Biggest Thing Man's Ever Done
- Picture from Life's Other Side
- Jesse James
- Talking Hard Work
- When That Great Ship Went Down
- Hard Ain't it Hard
- Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
- I Ain't Got Nobody
- The Sinking of the Reuben James
- Why, Oh Why?
- This Land is Your Land (reprise)
- Muleskinner Blues (Blue Yodel #8)
- The Wreck of the Old 97
- Sally Goodin'
- Little Black Train
- Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet
- Baltimore to Washington
- Rubber Dolly
- 21 Years
- Sowing on the Mountain
- Bed on the Floor
- Take a Whiff on Me
- Stepstone
- Put My Little Shoes Away
- Hen Cackle
- Poor Boy
- Stackolee (Stagger Lee)
- Johnny Hart (John Hardy)
- Worried Man Blues
- Danville Girl
- Gambling Man
- Rye Straw
- Crawdad Song
- Ida Red
- Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy
- Train 45
- Hard Travelin'
- Farmer-Labor Train
- Howdjado
- Ship in the Sky
- I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore
- Mean Talking Blues
- Better World A-Coming
- Miss Pavlichencko
- So Long It's Been Good to Know You (War Version)
- New Found Land
- Oregon Trail
- Vigilante Man
- 1913 Massacre
- Talking Columbia
- Two Good Men
- Sally Don't You Grieve
- Talking Sailor (Talking Merchant Marine)
- What are We Waiting On?
- Railroad Blues
- Ludlow Massacre
- Ladies Auxilary
- Miner's Song
- When the Yanks Go Marching In?
- Union Maid (excerpt)
- The Rubaiyat (excerpt)
- The Many and the Few
- Hanukkah Dance
- Ranger's Command
- Buffalo Skinners
- Billy the Kid
- Cowboy Waltz
- Pretty Boy Floyd
- Along in the Sun and the Rain
- Whoopie Ti-Yi-Yo, Get Along Little Dogies
- Froggie Went A-Courtin'
- Buffalo Gals
- I Ride an Old Paint
- Dead or Alive (Poor Lazurus)
- Slip Knot
- Cocaine Blues (Bad Lee Brown)
- Go Tell Aunt Rhody
- Chisholm Trail
- Stewball
- Wild Cyclone
- Train Blues
- Red River Valley
- Fastest of Ponies
- Stewball
- Snow Deer
- When the Curfew Blues
- Little Darling (At My Window Sad and Lonely)
- Blowing Down That Old Dusty Road
- The Return of Rocky Mountain Slim and Desert Rat Shorty