Janis Joplin - Cod'ine

On the day I was born the Grim Reaper smiled

He said I'll get you yet now you demonized child

But I's younger than all my brothers,

You know it's all that's left of mine

Honey but I caught 'em, yeah I passed 'em, honey I left 'em, left with codine

And it's real, lord it's real, yeah, one more time

Now I seem to recall when I's a young girl

How my joys and my happiness you know all seemed to whirl

But then somethings, honey sometimes, somehow it seems

Oh codine became so liked, it took my dreams

Honey and it's real, lord it's real yeah, one more time

It's the reason I breathe honey, it's the reason I walk

It's the reason I sleep and the reason I talk

Yeah but soon my devotion will all be repaid

For codine will kill me honey, that's the bargain that we've made

and it's real, lord it's real yeah, one more time

And after I'm gone and this sad race is run

Guess I'll go down to hell where my life was begun

But there'll be somebody with me child that won't leave me alone

Oh codine'll be waitin' to punish my role

Honey, it's real, lord it's real, one more time

Yeah and after I'm gone and the mournin' sets in

Don't you mourn what I was girl nor what might have been

Mourn my sad heart, honey my tear filled eyes

Mourn the codeine that I need, that I crave, and I despise

Honey, it's real, lord it's real, one more time

Yeah it's real, lord it's real, one more time

• Artist:Buffy Sainte-Marie
• Album:s Is Janis Joplin 1965 (1995)