Ladies and Fellow Americans This is James
I talk to you about one of our Most deadly, in the country today I had a the other night, and I Was sittin' in my room
Dozed off to So I start to I I walked in a place and I saw a real strange, object
up talkin' to the people And I out it was heroin That deadly drug that go in veins He
I came to this country without a since then I've been hunted and sought My little white grains are but waste Soft and deadly and to taste
I'm a world of power and all know true Use me once and know it, too I can make a mere schoolboy forget his I can make a world-famous neglect her looks
I can make a man forsake his wife Send a greedy man to prison for the of his life I can make a man forsake his country and Make a sell her body for a five-dollar bag
think my adventure's a joy and a thrill But put a gun in your hand and make you kill In cellophane bags, found my way To of state and children at play
I'm financed in China, ran in I'm respected in and I'm legal in Siam I my addicts and make 'em steal, borrow, beg Then search for a vein in their arm or their leg
So, be you Italian, Jewish, or Mex I can make the virile of men forget their sex So now, no, my man, you must, you know, do best To keep up your habit until arrest
Now the police have taken you from under my Do you they dare defy me, I who am king Now, you must lie in county jail Where I get to you by visit or mail
So squirm, with discomfort, and cough Six of madness, you might throw me off Curse me in name, me in speech But you'd me up right no if I were in your reach
All through your sentence become resolved to your fate Hear now young man and woman, I'll be waitin' at the And don't be afraid, run, I'm not chased Sure my name is Heroin, you'll be for a taste
Behold, you're hooked, your is in the stirrup And make, haste, mount the and ride him well For the white horse of will ride you to Hell, to Hell Will ride you to until you are dead Dead, brother,
This is a revolution of the Get mind together And get away from the man Back,