[00:02.76]Ladies and gentlemen
[00:05.02]Fellow Americans, lady Americans
[00:10.00]This is James Brown
[00:12.33]I wanna talk to you about one of our
[00:14.54]Most deadly killers in the country today
[00:21.49]I had a dream the other night, and I
[00:23.31]Was sittin' in my living room
[00:26.03]Dozed off to sleep
[00:26.96]So I start to dreamin'
[00:28.64]I dreamed I walked in a place and
[00:30.98]I saw a real strange, weird object
[00:32.95]Standin' up talkin' to the people
[00:34.32]And I found out it was heroin
[00:37.00]That deadly drug that go in your veins
[00:38.72]He says:
[00:40.64]I came to this country without a passport
[00:44.05]Ever since then I've been hunted and sought
[00:48.16]My little white grains are nothin' but waste
[00:51.46]Soft and deadly and bitter to taste
[00:55.68]I'm a world of power and all know it's true
[01:00.05]Use me once and you'll know it, too
[01:04.06]I can make a mere schoolboy forget his books
[01:07.50]I can make a world-famous beauty neglect her looks
[01:12.03]I can make a good man forsake his wife
[01:14.06]Send a greedy man to prison for the rest of his life
[01:18.42]I can make a man forsake his country and flag
[01:22.42]Make a girl sell her body for a five-dollar bag
[01:26.41]Some think my adventure's a joy and a thriller
[01:28.78]But I'll put a gun in your hand and make you a killer
[01:32.48]In cellophane bags I've found my way
[01:34.58]To heads of state, to children at play
[01:37.45]I'm financed in China, ran in Japan
[01:40.02]I'm respected in Turkey and I'm legal in Siam
[01:44.02]I take my addicts and make 'em steal, borrow, beg
[01:47.95]Then they search for a vein in their arm or their leg
[01:53.99]So, be you Italian, Jewish, Black or Mex
[02:00.44]I can make the most virile of men forget their sex
[02:05.14]So now, now, my man, you must (you know) do your best
[02:09.64]To keep up your habit until your arrest
[02:14.06]Now the police have taken you from under my wing
[02:19.99]Do you think they dare defy me, I who am king?
[02:24.50]Now, you must lie in that county jail
[02:28.56]Where I can't get to you by visit or mail
[02:32.18]So squirm -- with discomfort -- wiggle and cough (hack!)
[02:36.91]Six days of madness, hah, and you might throw me off
[02:42.70]Curse me in name! Defy me in speech!
[02:45.64]But you'd pick me up right now if I were in your reach
[02:49.39]All through your sentence you've become resolved to your fate
[02:52.91]Hear now! Young man and woman, I'll be waitin' at the gate
[02:57.43]Don't be afraid, don't run! I'm not chased
[03:00.50]Sure my name is Heroin! You'll be back for a taste
[03:04.68]Behold, you're hooked!
[03:07.65]Your foot is in the stirrup
[03:09.55]And make -- haste!
[03:12.19]Mount the steed!
[03:14.03]And ride him well
[03:17.54]For the white horse of heroin
[03:20.20]Will ride you to Hell!
[03:24.08]To Hell!
[03:26.46]Will ride you to Hell!
[03:29.80]Until you are dead!
[03:37.12]Dead, brother! Dead!
[03:40.91]This is a revolution of the mind
[03:43.82]Get your mind together
[03:45.00]And get away from drugs!
[03:48.15]That's the man!
[03:52.01]Back! Back
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