Mistress of the Salmon Salt (Quicklime Girl) Lyrics

Lyric discussion by headerkel 

Cover art for Mistress of the Salmon Salt (Quicklime Girl) lyrics by Blue Öyster Cult

Quicklime girl, she disposes of coast guard men's bodies who visit the Duke's whorehouse. Burying them in a garden area, she dissolves the bodies with quicklime. The bodies then fertilize the plants, which she harvests in springtime for "Salmon Salt" which I take to mean dill, aka Anethum GRAVEolens.

@headerkel Actually, lyrics refer to a juke joint, so disregard the Duke. She is a prostitute in New Orleans who chokes her victims with a poison. Everything else above still stands.