The Pope Smokes Dope

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The Pope Smokes Dope
Artist: David Peel & The Lower Eastside
Album: The Pope smokes Dope
Year: 1972

Chorus:
The pope smokes dope, God gave him the grass
The pope smokes dope, he likes to smoke in mass
The pope smokes dope, he's a groovy head
The pope smokes dope, the pope smokes dope
(oh yeah! 3x)

God is high on mescaline, Satan's high on smack
Popes in Rome get stoned on grass, Jesus freaks are back
Jesus Christ a super-hippie never shoot up junk
Popes in Rome get stoned alone, priests, in church get drunk

(Chorus)

Now Jack 'n' Jill went up the hill, to fetch a pail of water
Jill forgot to take her pill, now she's got a daughter
Taking pills is not a joke for a groovy Pope
Birth control can be a toke of marijuana smoke

(Chorus)

The pope is getting higher (re: higher! higher! - 4x)

(Chorus)

Cha! Cha! Cha!

[patrice]

1. Tomorrow. n/t

[Bluzmann57]

2. Holy Smokes!

Sorry, couldn't resist. Another Peel classic is ,"Proud to be a New York City Hippie". Haven't heard any of this stuff in years. Thanks. One question though, I heard that Peel was discovered by John Lennon while playing guitar in Greenwich Village. Is that true or just an Urban legend?

[johnnie]

3. It's true..

I saw Peel a few years back at a club here. Half of the audience looked like feds..lol.

[bigtree]

4. Dunno. They were friends. apparently.

THE "WANTED" POSTER
The FBI prepared a "wanted" style flyer for distribution to local law enforcement agencies in Miami to facilitate the arrest of Lennon. Although he had one of the most famous faces in the Western world at this point, the FBI apparently was not confident that local police would be able to recognize the ex-Beatle. The photo, however, is not of Lennon but rather David Peel, an East Village street singer who had become friends with Lennon and who had an album released on Apple records that year.