The song is a New Orleans classic recorded by loads of people. It's clearly a song about junky life. Dr John's version has a verse that goes: 'Gimme whiskey, when I get a lil thirsty/ Good beer when I get a little dry/ Gimme tobacco when I get a lil sickly/ And give me heroin before I die/ With some cocaine on the side'....or something like that. It was a song from the streets before some a
The song is a New Orleans classic recorded by loads of people. It's clearly a song about junky life. Dr John's version has a verse that goes: 'Gimme whiskey, when I get a lil thirsty/ Good beer when I get a little dry/ Gimme tobacco when I get a lil sickly/ And give me heroin before I die/ With some cocaine on the side'....or something like that. It was a song from the streets before some a