Take a Whiff on Me

This song was collected by John and Alan Lomax from Iron Head and Lead Belly, as well as other sources.^[3]

The first recording appears to be the 1930 recording by Memphis Jug Band titled "Cocaine Habit Blues".^[4]

• Memphis Jug Band The Best of the Memphis Jug Band (titled Cocaine Habit Blues) 1930^[5][4]
• Lead Belly Leadbelly ARC and Library of Congress Recordings Vol. 1 (1934–1935)
• The Greenbriar Boys Ragged But Right! (1964)
• Jerry Garcia (with Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions) Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions (recorded 1964, released 1998)
• The Byrds (Untitled) (1970), There Is a Season (2006), and Live at Royal Albert Hall 1971 (2008)
• Mungo Jerry (as “Have a Whiff on Me”, 1971 single)
• The New Kentucky Colonels Live in Sweden (recorded 1973, released 1976)
• The Flying Burrito Brothers The Red Album (recorded c. 1975, released 2002)
• Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band (1975 Album, "Australia")
• Mission Mountain Wood Band In Without Knocking (1977)
• Lonnie Donegan's "Have a Drink on Me" on Puttin' On the Style (1978) is a sanitized version of the song, based on Charlie Poole's 1924 recording, "Take a Drink on me"
• Woody Guthrie Muleskinner Blues: The Asch Recordings, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings SFW 40101 (1997)
• The White Stripes Under Blackpool Lights (2004)
• Old Crow Medicine Show: Two versions: As "Tell It to Me" on Old Crow Medicine Show (2004) and with substantially reworked lyrics as "Cocaine Habit" on Big Iron World (2006)

• American Ballads and Folk Songs, John Lomax and Alan Lomax, 1934 as "Honey, Take a Whiff on Me"
• Mission Mountain Wood Band, "Take a Whiff on Me", 1970