Pete Atkin - Little Sammy Speedball lyrics

Atkin-James At the age of seven years he could already boost a short To score himself a bluebird or a pearl He could smoke and chase the dragon, he could shoot and he could snort And build a co*ktail out of boy and girl From any dealer's bundle he could sniff a single bag And spot the blank, the ca-ca or the flea The greatest living expert on the ways to mainline scag He could tie up in the dark and not OD So they called him Little Sammy Speedball Because Little Sammy Speedball took it all He ate cartwheels to go up and dropped sleepers to come down A red and rose and pink and rainbow stash He dynamited white stuff just to balance out the brown And flashed on hash but never crashed on splash Ripped on chalk and peaches he found time to load the Chief And kissing big attained a state of grace His panaddicted system was tuned high beyond belief A miracle of forces poised in space So they called him Little Sammy Speedball Because Little Sammy Speedball took it all But the day he turned eleven put the pin in the balloon An aching tooth had nagged him half the night He took a junior aspirin crushed with honey in a spoon And exploded in a blaze of heat and light In the ruins of his bathroom lay the candy-coloured pills The universal user's bag of sweets But nothing else remained except an echo in the hills And the sound of tablets bouncing in the streets So they called him Little Sammy Speedball Because Little Sammy Speedball took it all