poemranker ::Replying

ReplyTo a comment on To The Modern Black Standard by ALChemy.

zodiac6 Nov 2005

You must mean Billie Holiday singing "gimme a pigsfoot and a bottle of beer" as written by a Jew.

Try Nina Simone:

You know I smoked a lot of grass, Oh Lord, I popped a lot of pills
But I never did touch nothing that my spirit couldn't kill
You know I see a lot of people walkin' round here with tombstones in their eyes
'Cause the pusher don't care, child, if you live or if you die
God damn on the pusher,
I said God damn him
God damn him, pusher man

You have to hear it. When Nina says God damn, you know God's paying attention.