"King Heroin" by James Brown

Ladies and gentlemen, fellow Americans, lady Americans 
This is James Brown. I wanna talk to you about one of our 
most deadly killers in the Country today.......I had a dream

other night and I was sittin in my livin room, I doze off to

sleep so I start to dreamin. I dream I walked in a place and

saw a real strange, weird, object, standin up talkin to the
people, 
and I found out it was heroin, that deadly drug that go in
your 
vein. He said, I came to this Country without a passport, 
ever since then, I been hunted and sought, my little white 
grains are nothin but waste, salt and deadly and bitter to
taste, 
but Im a world of powerball and although its true, use me
once 
and youll know it too. I can make a mere school boy forget
his 
books, I can make a world famous beauty neglect her looks. 
I can make a good man forsake his wife, send a greedy man to

prison for the rest of his life. I can make a man forsake
his 
country and flag , make a girl sell her body for a five
dollar bag. 
Some think my adventures and and joy are a thriller, but I
put 
a gun in your hand and make you a killer. In cellophane bags

I found my way to heads of state to children at play. I
finance 
in China, ran in Japan, Im respected in Turkey and Im legal
in 
Siam. I take my addicts and make em steal, borrow, beg, and
then 
they search for a vein in their arm or their leg. So be you,
Italian, 
Jewish, Black or Mex, I can make the most verile of men
forget 
their sex. So now, so now my man, you must do your best, to
keep 
up your habit until your arrest. Now that the police have
taken you 
from under my wing, do you think they identify me, I who am
king 
now, you must lie in that county jail, where I cant get to
you by a 
visit or mail so squirm with discomfort, wiggle and cough.
Six days 
of madness, ha, and you might throw me off. Curse me a name,

define me in speech, but you would pick me up right now if I
was in 
reach, all through your center youve become a czar to your
fate. 
fear none, young man and woman, Ill be waitin at the gate
and 
dont be afraid, dont run, Ill not chase.Sure my name is
heroin, 
hell be back for a taste. Behold, youre hooked! Youre foot
is 
in the stirrup, and make haste, mount the steed and ride him
well 
for the white horse of heroin will ride you to hell, to
hell, will ride 
you to hell until you are dead! Dead, brother! Dead! 

This is a revelation of mine. Get your mind together and get
away 
from drugs. Thats a man Oh! Oh!