Charlatans - Codine Blues

This version must be an edited one (damn). According to a couple of sites, it's missing some verses: out of interests' sake, they're posted here and marked in [[brackets]]. Words I couldn't make out are also marked.

My belly is craving, I got a shakin in my head
I feel like I'm dyin and I wish I was dead
If I live tomorrow that'd be a long time
For I'll reel and I'll fall and rise on codine
And it's real, Lord, it's real, one more time.

[[When I was a young man I learned not to care
Wild whiskey, confronted I often did swear
My mother and father said whiskey is a curse
But the fate of their baby is many times worse
And it's real, and it's real, one more time

You'll forget your woman, you'll forget about man
Try it just once, and you'll try it again
It's sometimes you wonder and it's sometimes you think
That I'm living my life with abandon to drink
And it's real, and it's real, one more time]]

Stay away from the pool halls, the taverns in town
Stay away from the men pushin that codine around
Stay away from the stores where the remedies are fine
Let's(?) better a (?) because of codine

You'll forget you're a woman, you'll forget about men
Try it just once, and you'll try it again
You forget about ?, you'll forget about time
And live off the days a slave to codine.
And it's real, Lord, it's real, one more time
And it's real, Lord, it's real, one more time
And stumble and fall, and rise on codine.

[[And my belly is craving, I've got a shakin' in my head
And I've started heating whether my body said
Steady yourself with the grains of cocaine
And you'll end dead or you'll end up insane
And it's real, and it's real, one more time
And my belly is craving, I got shaking in my head
I feel like I'm dyin' and I wish I were dead
If I lived till tomorrow it's gonna be a long time
For I'll reel and I'll fall and rise on codine
And it's real, Lord, it's real, one more time
And it's real, Lord, it's real, one more time]]

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Charlatans
• US
• Codine
• Blues
• Sixties
• Psychedelic
• Kurt
• Cobain
• Addiction
• Heroin

[jako134j]

origonally by buffy sainte marie, good version. if u like this LISTEN TO JANIS JOPLINS VERSION!

[1michelemichele1]

Thanks for the head's up -- goddamn, Buffy Sainte Marie's version is *amazing*

[Vokio]

whys there a picture kurt cobain?

[cabngirl]

MORE CHARLATANS!!

[MyNegativeCreep]

RIP Kurt Cobain

[thevainprince]

Courtney love did the best cover by far!!!!!

[theedestruction]

Kurt Cobain = legend. If you disagree you're an idiot.

[stevefreakinawesome]

Kurt Cobain can suck the devils d!ck

[chocolatethunder651]

I heard this song in the movie "Boys Don't Cry" and i just had to find it!!!!

[mhefhef123]

love this and donovan's version 

[AmberJean94]

donovan's versions better

[tbitsu27]

i think there is a picture of Cobain because the vocals in this song sound a bit like something Kurt would sing?

[RyanStewartLenn0n]

The actual drug is called Codeine, if any of you have been on it.. It's crazy. Soo good, but crazy man..