Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Saturday Night at the Oldies: (Anti-)Drug Songs

Buffy Sainte-Marie, Cod'ine

Hoyt Axton, The Pusher

Dave Van Ronk, Cocaine Blues 

Velvet Underground, Heroin

Warren Zevon, Carmelita

Harry 'The Hipster' Gibson, Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs Murphy's Ovaltine?

Dubiously classified as drug songs:

Peter, Paul, and Mary, Puff the Magic Dragon

Doors, The Crystal Ship

Tim Hardin, Red Balloon.  Volume is poor, so try the Small Faces version

Donovan, Mellow Yellow.  Supposedly about cigarettes filled with dried banana peels.  I tried one of these mellow yellow joints  in Hollywood, Cal, in '67.  It had no psychoactive effect I could discern.

Beatles, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.  Supposedly about LSD. 


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