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Thread #101817   Message #2084473
Posted By: Tattie Bogle
22-Jun-07 - 07:06 PM
Thread Name: 42 days to no smoking (UK)
Subject: RE: 42 days to no smoking (UK)
Copied from a previous thread, started in Jan 2000:

My Last Cigarette

[A]Tobacco, Tobacco I [D]hate you I do
Like [E] Tarzan I'd look if it [A]wasn't for you
But I'll give up the habit I[D]will even yet
When I've [E]had just one more cigar[A]ette.[E7]
It[A]wasn't the whisky, it [E]wasn't the wine
That [D]made such a wreck of this [A]body of mine
But I'll give up the habit I [E]will even yet
When I've had just one more cigar[A]ette.

Under my eyes are a couple of bags
I blame it all on to a packet of fags
But I'll give up the habit I will even yet
When I've had just one more cigarette
My teeth are all yellow and so is my tongue
I breathe through a kipper I call it a lung
But I'll give up the habit I will even yet
When I've had just one more cigarette

Nail in my coffin so pale and so thin
I am a fool to keep driving you in
You say thet you'll kill me how much do you bet
When I've had just one more cigarette
I'll fling the packet away, away
Fifty times in a week I say
Fling the packet away away
When I've had just one more cigarette.

I remember this song being popular in my teenager-hood in the 1960s, probably when I first tried the weed. (Since gave it up 30 years ago). The song still seems very contemporary!
What I didn't know until I looked it up just now, was that it was written by Sydney Carter: he who wrote "Lord of the Dance" and "John Ball". He lived to the age of 88, but don't know if he was smoking then.