Amphetamine Annie

Album: Boogie With Canned Heat (1968)
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  • This is a song with a message
    I want you to heed my warning

    I wanna tell you all a story
    About this chick I know
    They call her "Amphetamine Annie"
    She's always shoveling snow

    I sat her down and told her
    I told her crystal clear
    "I don't mind you getting high
    But there's one thing you should fear"

    "Your mind might think its flying, baby
    On those little pills
    But you ought to know it's dying, 'cause
    Speed kills"

    But Annie kept on speeding
    Her health was getting poor
    She saw things in the window
    She heard things at the door

    Her mind was like a grinding mill
    Her lips were cracked and sore
    Her skin was turning yellow
    I just couldn't take it no more

    She thought her mind was flying
    On those little pills
    She didn't it was going down fast, 'cause
    Speed kills

    Well I sat her down and told her
    I told her one more time
    "The whole wide human race has taken
    Far too much methedrine"

    She said I don't care what a Limey says
    I've got to get it on
    I'm not here to just see no man
    Who come from across the pond

    She wouldn't heed my warning
    Lord, she wouldn't hear what I said
    Now she's in the graveyard, and she's
    Awfully dead Writer/s: ADOLFO DE LA PARRA, ALAN WILSON, HENRY VESTINE, ROBERT JR. HITE, SAMUEL LAWRENCE TAYLOR
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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