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And seriously, NO ONE in here knows when gregory isaacs started his nasty habit, so it might as well have been 1981 as 1990 or whatever.

Nothings wrong with weed! I just dont think that he made the song, to be about weed...

Nihght Nurse defenitly has a double meaning love song / coke song. No doubt possible.

Greg coke addiction started before 87, as he went in jail in 87 for coke possession. It probably started with the coke business from the very early 80's.

The fact Greg wrote a tune like Night Nurse does not mean it's about HIS addiction! Of course it's higly possible, but for me it's just among the best Coke song ever written.


I don't see the point about Greg addiction. That's just a fact, no more. Anyway he remains for me the best jamaican singer with Dennis Brown. All Greg LPs from the first to at least Night Nurse LP are must have.

I realy like the tune, I realy like the singer and i don't care about his good or bad abbits. Greg is just a top artsit.

wareika

@wareika.
Exactly what I was trying to say! - except I'm a long winded oaf!

i knew someone who said he met isaacs and he explained that the song night nurse was refering to rock. maybe he was refering to coke when he said rock. Regardless, night nurse is one of my all time favorite jams to smoke a good spliff to.

pffff, did anyone ask Gregory himself about the (real) meaning of this song?

Until then everything else is only gossip and speculation...

Always been exactly what it says on the label to me...a love song. Should we be looking for hidden meanings in "Private Secretary " ?

Maybe if you play it backwards.......

hey smaddy did wanna tell me hard bout when bob sings "i am on the rock" (iron lion zion) dat means him bun crack in a pipe. CHO!

yea growing up listen to night nurse always pussle me.but i know it had to do with cok cause roots smoke an sing that.

Why do people believe that it wasn't around before 1981? Unfortunately, it was, although the word "crack" started to become commonplace only when Nancy Reagan started her war on drugs in the early 80's. Prior to that, it was simply known as "freebasing". I know this not from my own exeprience, but I lost a collegue to it in 1980.

As for Gregory - how is this anyone's business except his own? I am sure he isn't speculating on your personal life, so why do the same to his?