Jimmy Dean
SMOKE SMOKE SMOKE THAT CIGARETTE
Merle Travis/Tex Ritter

1. Now I'm a fella with a heart of gold,
With the ways of a gentleman, I've been told,
A 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.

2. It ain't that I don't smoke myself,
And I don't reckon they'll hinder your health.
I've smoked them all my life and I ain't dead yet.
But nicotine slaves are all the same.
At a pettin' party or a poker game,
Everythin's gotta stop while you have that cigarette.

CHORUS: Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette.
Puff, puff, puff and if you smoke yourself to death,
Tell St Peter at the Golden Gate
That you hate to make him wait
But you just gotta have another cigarette.

3. Now at a game of chance the other night,
Ol' Dame Fortune was a doin' me right.
The kings and queens just kept on comin' round.
And I got a full and I betted high,
But my bluff didn't work on a certain guy.
He just kept a risin' and layin' his money down.

4. He'd raise me and I'd raise him,
And I sweated blood. You gotta sink or swim.
He finally called and he couldn't raise the bet.
I said, "Aces full, pal. How about you?"
He said, "I'll tell you in a minute or two,
But right now I just gotta have another cigarette."

Smoke smoke smoke...
[ piano ]

5. Now the other night I had me a date
With the cutest little gal in the fifty states,
One of them high-bred up-town fancy little dames.
She said she loved me and it seemed to me
That things were just about like they oughta be,
So hand in hand we strolled down Lover's Lane.

6. She was oh so far from a chunk of ice,
And our smoochin' party was a goin' real nice,
So help me Hannah, and I think I'd of been there yet.
I give her a kiss and a little squeeze,
And she said, "Would you excuse me, please?
But I just gotta have another cigarette."

Smoke smoke smoke... X 2
You just gotta have another cigarette