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sameAs	Willie The Weeper
has title	Willie The Weeper
Subject	Songs about drugs 1927 songs American songs Billy Walker (musician) songs
abstract	%22Willie the Weeper%22 is a song about drug addiction. It is based on a standard vaudeville song, likely written in 1904. The first recording was likely by Freddie Keppard between 1923 and 1926. Many artists recorded it in 1927, including Frankie %22Half-Pint%22 Jaxon, Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven, and King Oliver. Ernest Rodgers recorded a version, also in 1927, which shares several lines with Cab Calloway's %22Minnie the Moocher%22.The song has many different versions, but all share a common theme: Willie, a chimney sweeper with a dope habit, is introduced. The rest of the song is a description of his drug-induced dream. As Carl Sandburg wrote in his book The American Songbag:R. W. Gordon in his editorship of the Adventure magazine department %22Old Songs That Men Have Sung%22 received thirty versions of Willy the Weeper, about one hundred verses different. Willy shoots craps with kings, plays poker with presidents, eats nightingale tongues a queen cooks for him; his Monte Carlo winnings come to a million, he lights his pipe with a hundred dollar bill, he has heart affairs with Cleopatra, the Queen of Sheba, and movie actresses.In later years, various artists covered the song. Billy Walker's recording of the song reached #5 on the country charts. Dave Van Ronk has covered this song. Bette Davis sings this song in the film The Cabin in the Cotton.
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