A black stoker from Djibouti Singer: Vasilis Papakonstantinou Lyrics: Nikos Kavvadias Music: Thanos Mikroutsikos Willie the black stoker from Djibouti when he would finish his night shift he would visit my room while laughing and would talk for hours about strange things He would tell me how they smoke hashish in Algiers and how at Aden they inhale the white powder while dancing and later how they would shout and talk to themselves once the daze circled them with strange dreams He would tell me further that he saw one night he had smoked that he was riding a stallion across the sea behind which were running mermaids with wings "once we visit Aden" he would say "you too shall try it" I offered him sweets and razor blades and told him that hashish kills a man and he used to laugh strongly…