Cocaine Lil - Mekons

Did you ever hear about cocaine lil

She lived in cocainetown on a cocaine hill

She had a cocaine dog and a cocaine cat

And they fought all night with a cocaine rat

She had cocaine hair on her cocaine head

A cocaine dress that was poppy red

She wore a snowbird hat and sleighride clothes

On her coat sh wore crimson cocaine rose

Big red chariots on the milky way

Snakes and elephants, silver and grey

Oh the cocaine blues they make me sad

Oh the cocaine blues make me feel so bad

She went to a party one cold night

The way she sniffed was sure a fright

There was morphine sue and the poppyfaced kid

Climbing up snow ladders and down they slid

Along in the morning about half past three

They were all lit up like a christmas tree

When she got home and started for bed

She took another sniff and it knocked her dead

They laid her out in her cocaine clothes

She wore a snowbird hat with a crimson rose

On her headstone you’ll find this refrain

«She died as she lived sniffing cocaine»