The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #16834   Message #159703
Posted By: lamarca
07-Jan-00 - 05:43 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs
Subject: Lyr Add: SMOKING SPIRITUALIZED^^^
There's an old English song (from the 1600's?) called "Smoking Spiritualized" - Larry Hanks recorded it on "Tying Knots in the Devil's Tail"

Smoking Spiritualized

Tobacco's but an Indian weed,
Grows green at morn, cut down at eve.
It shows our decay;
We are but clay;
Think of this, when you smoke tobacco.

The pipe that is so lily-white,
Wherein so many take delight,
Gone with a touch;
Man's life is such;
Think on this, when you smoke tobacco.

The pipe that is so foul within,
Shews how the soul is stained with sin;
It doth require
The purging fire.
Think on this, when you smoke tobacco.

The ashes that are left behind,
Do serve to put us all in mind,
That unto dust,
Return we must.
Think on this, when you smoke tobacco.

The smoke that doth so high ascend,
Shews that our life must have an end;
The vapour's gone;
Man's life is done.
Think on this, when you smoke tobacco.