“I thought “White Rabbit” was about LSD”
LSD is a colorless product whereas heroin can be black, brown or white and comes from the same drugs as morphine. There have been a number of songs relating to smack or horse:
Neil Young: The Needle and the Damage Done
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Under the Bridge
Velvet Underground: Heroin
Sinead O’Connor and U2: Heroin
Pink Floyd: Comfortably Numb
The Ramones: Chinese Rock
Lou Reed: Perfect Day
James Brown: King Heroin
Yoko Ono: Cold Turkey
Sublime: Pool Shark
Everclear: Heroin Girl
System of a Down: She’s Like Heroin
50 Cent: A Baltimore Love Thing
Billy Joel: Captain Jack
Goo Goo Dolls: Black Balloon
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This tune is about psychotropic drugs, including cocaine, and possibly heroin.
Junker Blues--Champion Jack Dupree (1941). You might be familiar with a much tamer version:
The Fat Man--Fats Domino (1950)