Codine Lyrics - Donovan Leitch

From the album best of donovan 

An' my belly is craving, I got shakin' in my head 

I feel like I'm dyin' an' I wish I were dead 

If I lived till tomorrow it's gonna be a long time 

For I'll reel and I'll fall and rise on codine 

An' it's real, an' it's real, one more time 

When I was a young man I learned not to care 

Wild whiskey, confronted I often did swear 

My mother and father said whiskey is a curse 

But the fate of their baby is many times worse 

An' it's real, an' it's real, one more time 

You'll forget your woman, you'll forget about man 

Try it just once, an' you'll try it again 

It's sometimes you wonder and it's sometimes you think 

That I'm a-living my life with abandon to drink 

An' it's real, an' it's real, one more time 

Stay away from the cities, stay away from the towns 

Stay away from the men pushin' the codine around 

Stay away from the stores where the remedy is found 

I will live a few days as a slave to codine 

An' it's real, an' it's real, one more time 

An' my belly is craving, I've got a shakin' in my head 

An' I've started heating whether my body said 

Steady yourself with the grains of cocaine 

An' you'll end dead or you'll end up insane 

An' it's real, an' it's real, one more time 

An' my belly is craving, I got shaking in my head 

I feel like I'm dyin' an' I wish I were dead 

If I lived till tomorrow it's gonna be a long time 

For I'll reel and I'll fall and rise on codine 

An' it's real, an' it's real, one more time 

An' it's real, an' it's real, one more time 

Tangerine Eyes 

Please darling Tangerine Eyes sing a song for me, 

One that I can hear all the day. 

Oh and please darling Tangerine Eyes kiss my hand at dawn 

By the bright and yellow corn of your hair. 

Like a picture of the golden sunset you can make it real, 

You know just how I feel all the time. 

So please darling Tangerine Eyes whisper to the wind 

We'll leave the rain behind and walk away. 

We walk along the lonesome shoreline listening to the sea, 

Talking to you and me about the sky 

And we know even as we walk that way before the dawn 

Our footsteps will be gone far away. 

The seagulls ride the winds for you, can't you hear them cry, 

Can't you hear them sigh out your name? 

Oh please darling Tangerine Eyes sing a song for me 

One that I can hear 

So I feel alright 

In the big start studded night of my dreams.