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cho smoke smoke smoke that cigarette
puff puff puff and if you smoke yourself to death
tell saint peter at the golden gate
that you hate to make him wait
but you’ve just got to have another cigarette
now i’m a feller with a heart of gold
and the ways of a gentleman i’ve been told
the kind of a guy that wouldn’t even harm a flea
but if me and a certain character met
the guy that invented the cigarette
i’d murder that son of a gun in the first degree
not ’cause i don’t smoke myself
and i don’t reckon they’ll harm your health
i’ve smoked all my life and ain’t dead yet
but nicotine slaves are all the same
at a pettin’ party or a poker game
everything must stop while they smoke that cigarette
in a game of chance the other night
old dame fortune was adoin’ me right
the kings and queens just kept on comin’ around
i played ’em hard and bet ’em high
but my bluff didn’t work on a certain guy
he kept on raisin’ and layin’ the money down
he’d raise me and i’d raise him
i sweated blood gotta sink or swim
he finally called and didn’t raise the bet
i said aces full palhow ’bout you
he said i’ll tell you in a minute or two
right now i’ve just got to have a cigarette
the other night i had a date
with the cutest little girl in the forty eight states
a highbred uptown fancy little dame
she said she loved me and it seemed to me
that things were ’bout like they oughta be
so hand in hand we strolled down lover’s lane
she was oh so far from a cake of ice
our smoochin’ party was agoin nice
so help me hannah i think i’d a been there yet
but i give her a kiss and a little squeeze
and she said tex excuse me please
i’ve just got to have another cigarette
well life ain’t nothing but a poker game
no two hands quite the same
but i never saw a winner that didn’t bet
so if any people tryin’ to quit
i ain’t gonna criticize you one bit
just make mine a jamaican cigarette
Artist: Commander Cody
Year: 1973
Decade: 70s
Language: en
Word Count: 199