Ella Fitzgerald - Wacky Dust Lyrics
They call it wacky dust
It's from a hot cornet
It gives your feet a feeling so breezy
And oh, it's so easy to get
It brings a dancing jag
And once it starts, then only a
Sap'll refuse to Big Apple or Shag
Oh I don't know just why it gets you so high
Putting a buzz in you heart
You'll do a marathon you'll wanna go on
Kickin' the ceilin' apart
They call it wacky dust
And in the end the rhythm will stop
When it does, then you'll drop
From happy wacky dust
Oh we don't know just why it gets you so high
Putting a buzz in you heart
You'll do a marathon you'll wanna go on
Kickin' the ceilin' apart
They call it wacky dust, yeah
It's something you can't trust
And in the end the rhythm will stop
When it does, then you'll drop
From happy wacky
The rhythm will stop
When it does, then you'll drop
From happy wacky dust
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Ella Fitzgerald Wacky Dust Comments
OMG, Oscar Levant co wrote this?
Sorry, we don't have any wacky dust, is Pepsi okay?
Cagaína pra minha cabeça
The best song about coke. Ever.
Back in the day when cocaine was being sold as a cure all for anything that ailed you, you could buy a kit that came with a metal tube for snorting. Nice that they gave you everything you might need. How kind of them. Lol
Ahh!,the good old days,when you could buy high quality narcotics from your local department store.
Actually you'd get it from your local pharmacist, but I got your meaning. lol
If you're here because of Nardwuar vs. Snoop Dogg :D
yup, I am
Xeric bro wtfff stoner moment
Ella is intoxicating in her own right. Don't need no drugs when I got Ella!
It ain't no BLUE MAGIC either
Is there a Macy's open around here. Lol 😀
Ella makes any drug of choice a classy one
need mass spectrometer to check wacky dust for soap and flour, 2017 dt
BTW- It's about !
Thanks Ella.
http://www.thecannabist.co/2017/06/15/ella-fitzgerald-reefer-songs-marijuana-history-jazz/80625/
It's about coke, as she sang I was feeling it too
it's a peppy song just like white girl makes you feel✌👌
Has anyone ever heard of a double entendre? That"s what this lyric is!
The two down-votes came from a couple folks who can't handle their drogz.
Devil's dandruff!!!!
This is about heroin, not cocaine.
Nope, it's about cocaine
Sarahbella Deerwoman Trujillo heroin is a downer lop but ya when you're coming down the heroin addicts act like you thought the song was about :P
she was a herion addict does that help clear it up
Not Ella.
berto pianoman No. She was not. But that’s not the point anyway. Smh.
she is definitely talking about dope hot cornet could be like a tooter (staw for snorting dope)
It seems to me this song is about the high you get from music of this sort, not narcotics. I'm surprised nobody commenting below has even alluded to this interpretation. The title is meant to draw you to the latter conclusion and to have you begin thinking about various substances, but the lyrics unequivocally tell you it is music (particularly swing music) they are talking about--unless, of course, you keep your stash of illicit drugs in a "hot cornet". For those that don't know, the "Big Apple" and "Shag" are styles of dancing that were popular during the Big Band Era.
From my experience, most songs in the 1930s containing references to drugs dealt primarily with Marijuana (then commonly referred to in the vernacular of the U.S. as "reefer", "tea" or "gage") such as in the songs "Reefer Man" and "Viper Mad", though there are also some references to opiate and cocaine use, e.g. most notably in Cab Calloway's "Minnie the Moocher".
"She messed around with a bloke named Smoky
She loved him though he was cokey
He took her down to Chinatown
And he showed her how to kick the gong around"
+Mush Morant Your name reminds me of Mezz Mezzro
+alcyonecrucis Miff Mole too?
And three quarks for Muster Mark.
i hate when im readin a comment and hit read more and get an essay longer than the song about some made up interpretation.
I love this world, anyone with me?
pretty damm good world :)
Any world with jazz is worthy of love.
only when im on drugs
coke goews the wrong direction for me to really love the world.
@The Old Bore ur the raw meat type
The "Hot Cornet" part made me think it was about marijuana.
Also, it's on an album of "Reefer songs", songs about weed.
Makes me think it's not about cocaine. Though coke does also make sense.
@iammrcancer fuck yeah
@Alphabex8
We can shop all we want but we will still come back to "our drug of choice"
Mine was alcohol but not just any alcohol. It had to be vodka. I loved screwdrivers although i didn't like orange juice, ice, or a glass. And who needs to save the cap on the bottle. Alcohol is a drug. If it came in powder someone would snort, smoke or shoot it.
Look, but don't touch.
I love this song even the version by Manhattan Transfer
In 1906 Macy's department store sold a folding container that had a vial of liquid cocaine and one of heroin. It included a syringe. For 4 dollars. It was promoted for women who suffered the "vapors" or known now as depression.
1830 was the first recorded year that people had "gas" parties. They would tape the doors and windows of a room and release the gas.. Nitrous Oxide.
drug history is fascinating thanks for sharing man
mycatslistentome
Whoah😎😎
I need a damn time machine and a lifetime supply of laudanum
They call it wacky dust
It brings a dancing jag
And once it starts, then only a
Sap'll refuse to Big Apple or Shag
They call it wacky dust
It's from a hot cornet
It gives your feet a feeling so breezy
And oh, it's so easy to get
They call it wacky dust
It brings a dancing jag
And once it starts, then only a
Sap'll refuse to Big Apple or Shag
Oh I don't know just why
It gets you so high
Putting a buzz in you heart
You'll do a marathon
You'll wanna go on
Kickin' the ceilin' apart
They call it wacky dust
It's something you can't trust
And in the end the rhythm will stop
When it does, then you'll drop
From happy wacky dust
Oh we don't know just why
It gets you so high
Putting a buzz in you heart
You'll do a marathon
You'll wanna go on
Kickin' the ceilin' apart
They call it wacky dust
It's something you can't trust
And in the end the rhythm will stop
When it does, then you'll drop
From happy wacky dust
wacky dust is a hell of a drug
Manhattan Transfer did a nice version of this, too.
Cocaine AKA
aunt; hubba; birdie powder; stardust; bernies flakes; bernies gold dust; bolivian marching powder; aunt nora; batman; big flake
just to name a few
whacky dust what a great name for coke. Great song too. Thanks for the upload.
Like an old-fashioned pre WWII Coca cola ad.. lol. I have the compilation album, Reefer Songs..amazing.