The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #16834 Message #2194828
Posted By: Newport Boy
15-Nov-07 - 05:55 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs
Subject: Lyr Add: NICOTINE BLUES (Martin Winsor)
I'm not sure this is an anti-smoking song, but I think a detect a slight note of regret.
Nicotine Blues, by Martin Winsor (about 1960)
I wake up in the morning no damn good I lie there in the bed just like a block of wood I fumble for the matches, light that morning fag There ain't nothing like that first sweet drag
Chorus Nicotine, nicotine I'm just a slave to that nicotine You can keep your liquor and your Benzedrine I'm just a slave to that nicotine
About every hour or so I get that yen Gotta stop everything and have a smoke again Looks like I was born the type That just lays around and smokes my pipe
Some folks like that old Virginia grown Smoke tailor-mades or they roll their own You can do what you like to that Indian weed Me, I would even chew the seed
Don't go much on that old opium Hashish only leaves me feeling numb But if you want to see me swing on a star Feed me up with a fat cigar
Every night before I go to bed A certain thought passes through my head I know it's no use my counting sheep If I don't have a smoke I just can't sleep.
I can't remember where I got this from, but I noted it down about 1961.