Jolie Holland
Jolie Holland
Jolie Holland
Jolie Holland
Jolie Holland
Jolie Holland
Jolie Holland
Jolie Holland
Jolie Holland
Jolie Holland
Jolie Holland
Jolie Holland
This song uses as a basis the tune and structure of the traditional gospel song, “(Give me that) Old-Time Religion”.
Lyrics for that song include:
Give me that old-time religion,
Give me that old-time religion
Give me that old-time religion
It’s good enough for me.
Gimme that old fashion morphine
Gimme that old fashion morphine
Gimme that old fashion morphine
It's good enough for me
What was good enough for my grandpa
It was good enough for my grandpa
It was good enough for my grandpa
It's good enough for me
Sister, don't get worried
Sister, don't get worried
Sister, don't get worried
Because the world is almost done
Gimme that old fashion morphine
Gimme that old fashion morphine
Gimme that old fashion morphine
It's good enough for me
It was good enough for Billy Burroughs
It was good enough for Billy Burroughs
It was good enough for Billy Burroughs
It's good enough for me
Sister, don't get worried
Sister, don't get worried
Sister, don't get worried
Because the world is almost done
Gimme that old fashion morphine
Gimme that old fashion morphine
Gimme that old fashion morphine
It's good enough for me
It was good enough for Isabelle Eberhardt
It was good enough for Isabelle Eberhardt
It was good enough for Isabelle Eberhardt
It's good enough for me
Sister, don't get worried
Sister, don't get worried
Sister, don't get worried
Because the world is almost done
Old Fashioned Morphine was written by Jolie Holland.
Old Fashioned Morphine was produced by Jolie Holland & Lemon DeGeorge.
Jolie Holland released Old Fashioned Morphine on Tue Apr 27 2004.
In a 2019 interview, Jolie Holland had this to say about the song:
I wrote Old Fashioned Morphine in my head on the city bus on my way to an early morning waitressing gig. And I had just been reading about the history of medicine or something so that’s where it came from.
So I wrote the song in my...