![]() ![]() After Stranger Things re-popularized the song, this later connotation is often read back in, and since Musical Youth left a lot of the original lyrics untouched, it now comes off to some as a sly weed song. Quite separately and likely later, “dutchie” was coined for a “blunt” made from the leaf wrapper of a Dutch Masters cigar (fyi: “blunts” are made with blunt cigar wrappers “joints” use cigarette paper). A “dutchie” in patois is a dutch oven (a kind of versatile pot used for slow cooking). ![]() So they sanitized and re-purposed a weed song into a song about poverty, hunger and music as spiritual food. Musical Youth were literally children, and you would have to be high or Gen Z to think that British black kids were going to be singing about drugs in the Thatcher/Reagan years. The practice is invested with spirituality, which includes sharing it counter-clockwise (i.e. A “kouchie” is a Rastafarian chalice pipe, which looks a lot like a bong but actually works like a vaporizer. “Pass The Dutchie” is absolutely NOT a song about weed, although it is an adaptation of “Pass The Kouchie”, which most definitely IS a weed song.
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