Marijuana, The Devil Flower (MP3s)

So here are a few country anti-marijuana tunes that I've been enjoying lately.  Any one of them would likely scare a reasonable person into completely forsaking the evil dope for the rest of his life. 

In fact, most narcotics experts attribute the total demise of recreational drug consumption to the effectiveness of songs like these.  Well, that and Dragnet.  OK, so maybe I'm exaggerating and songs like these have not, in fact, wiped out drug use.  They're still pretty damn entertaining, hysteria and all.

Johnny Price  -  Marijuana, The Devil's Flower  (2:40)

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Mr. Sunshine & His Guitar Pickers  -  Marijuana, The Devil's Flower  (2:43)

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Buck Jones  -  A Box Of Grass  (3:09)

Before departing, I need to once again acknowledge Mark Lee Allen, who generously set me up with the MP3 of A Box Of Grass, though I actually harvested the accompanying label photo from a YouTube user by the name of StaatsratsTube.  And I found the Mr. Sunshine tune over on a YouTube channel run by someone going by the name of bourbonneat.   So big thanks go out to all of them.

Comments

[Brian C.]

Well if Johnny Cash can steal "Folsom Prison Blues" from Gordon Jenkins, I guess this Price fella can steal "San Quentin" from Cash.

[chamblee54]

The "song" by Mr. Price is 2:40, which is sort of like 4:20.

[Jonny]

So, in "Box of Grass," Jeanne was using "the spike" before she was using "smack?" What was she using the hypodermic needle for before she got the smack? Isn't "works" an oven cleaner?

[Kip W]

I've certainly seen the light. Which way to the liquor store?

[Kegan Mahon]

If at all possible, I would certainly love to get the flipsides to any of these if you had them, please. I'm a sucker for the obscure country corn-pone.

That being said, it sounds wike our fwiend mistew Sunshine has a bit of a lisp, don't ya think?

[jb]

of course, the ultimate anti-drug song is "Smoke It - The Pot": http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/07/american_song_p.html