Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs From: Tony Burns Date: 11 Jan 00 - 12:44 PM Clare, Is the description of Art's aunt what you mean by having a somewhat shorter non-boring life? |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs From: Bert Date: 11 Jan 00 - 10:11 AM There's David Perry's "Mr Nicotine Man" to the tune of Mr. Tambourine Man. I've got it somewhere, I'll see if I can find it. Bert. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs From: Art Thieme Date: 10 Jan 00 - 10:30 PM I just realized that I wasn't very clear in the previous post. I've never smoked at all---except for about 5 years of smoking a pipe. It was my aunt who smokes packs a day for 50 years----not me. Art |
Subject: Lyr Add: DADDY SMOKED HIS LIFE AWAY^^ From: Art Thieme Date: 08 Jan 00 - 11:50 PM My old and good friend, a fine musician who now makes his living selling teeth, BRIAN GILL, wrote this remarkable song in 1986. Back then it was being used by The American Cancer Society.
Personally: After 50 years of smoking several packs a day, I had just watched my aunt die a terrible and demeaning, broken death because of her addiction to cigarettes. Emphysema had deprived her brain of oxygen to the extent that she exhibited the many symptoms of advanced Alzheimer's disease---all the while gasping for breath. On her deathbed, she constantly asked me to give her another cigarette.
words and music DADDY SMOKED HIS LIFE AWAY
What more can I do,
CHORUS:One by one
It's all a corporate scam,
BRIDGE:Nicotine stains on your fingers and nails
There's a reason for living, |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs From: Jo Taylor Date: 08 Jan 00 - 08:53 PM Andy G - Riz = papers originally made of rice paper La Croix = the name of the family whose business made them. Can't buy Rizla licquorice papers in France though... Jo |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs From: Susanne (skw) Date: 08 Jan 00 - 07:34 PM Clare - I'm not anti-smoking as such, I just can't understand how people can do that to themselves and I sometimes ask my mother not to smoke in my house because the smoke gives me a headache. Apart from that, I'm utterly tolerant, being a lifelong non-smoker. Anyway, the SMOKERS SONG I posted above should be your song! Enjoy your next cigarette! :-) - Susanne |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs From: clare s Date: 08 Jan 00 - 06:27 PM We don't bother with songs, we just enjoy smoking and pity the overtly self rightious positions of the rest of you - and we don't care if we might die a few years earlier. Our years won't have been quite as boring as yours Clare |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs From: Snuffy Date: 08 Jan 00 - 06:07 PM Clare S and longhair - send 'em in if you've got 'em I can sympathise with you - I'm a tobacco addict myself - but I shove it up my nose, that's why I'm snuffy |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs From: clare s Date: 08 Jan 00 - 04:58 PM How about some pro (or at least not anti) smoking songs to stop us poor addicts feeling worse than we already are made to? Happy new year anti-smoking fascist people...
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs From: longhair Date: 08 Jan 00 - 04:53 PM Well, if we're worring about polluting other's air space, we also need songs like "Damn that Perfume You're Wearing could make a Corpse Cry", or "That Colonge Smells like it could take the Hair off an Elephant". What pollutes others air, all depends on which side of the isle your standing. No flame intended, but it's funny to me that some of the same people bitching about smoke in their air space, wear some of the loudest smelling stuff on the face of the earth.. Sorry, had to say it. Now y'all continue what is a fine thread... |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs From: Frank Hamilton Date: 08 Jan 00 - 02:59 PM Actually, there are not too many anti-smoking songs. Tobacco's But An Indian Weed is not quite about the perils of smoking and Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette is more about a complaint of someone stalling in a card game. I personally would love to see more anti-smoking songs. Particularly about those who pollute other's air space. Frank |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs From: dick greenhaus Date: 08 Jan 00 - 11:51 AM Hi- The words to Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette; Cigarettes and Whiskey; and Tobacco's But an Indian Weed are all in DigiTrad. A little searching can save a lot of typing. Incidentally, the original verse ending to Tobacco's But an Indian Weed was "Think on this when you drink tobacco"--a reference to what non-smokers perceived was being done with the smoke of the burning weed. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs From: Tony Burns Date: 08 Jan 00 - 11:49 AM Of course you are right Snuffy. The terms chorus and refrain still get twisted in my head. Still, a consistancy between the chorus and refrain will make it easier for others to pick up. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs From: Chris/Darwin Date: 08 Jan 00 - 07:09 AM Gene There was one more verse in the original "Cigareettes and Whusky", as follows:
Cigareettes is a blot on the whole human race I also sing a couple of extra verses about women and whisky that go over just as well, but that is another thread...
Regards
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs From: longhair Date: 08 Jan 00 - 06:42 AM Sheesh!! Can't even come here w/o anti-smoking stuff! :^) |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs From: Snuffy Date: 08 Jan 00 - 06:27 AM Tony Burns - I think a zipper is a great idea. Cancer and heart failure is in the chorus anyway - after every verse AndyG - Thanks for the Harry Rag song and the info on Rizla+ - you set me off surfing and I found the Rizla website. Apparently, Pierre Lacroix started selling paper in 1532 and they introduced rice ("riz" in French) paper in 1865.
I also found a page on Cockney rhyming slang and according to them Harry Wragg was a jockey famous enough to become the rhyming slang for "fag" [US readers - in UK English fag merely means cigarette] |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs From: Tony Burns Date: 07 Jan 00 - 11:46 PM Hi Snuffy UK, I like the Cancer and heart failute line and so will suggest a refrain of:
I started smoking to look cool Hmmm... "Smokin's gonna nail ya" is good too. (Maybe and improvement.) Have to get that "Cancer and heart failure" into a verse somewhere. Maybe two separate verses. (I have to stop thinking out loud. I'll stop now.) More verses? The first few were easy. You could almost make this a zipper song and let folks jump in. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs From: Alan of Australia Date: 07 Jan 00 - 10:50 PM G'day, The tune to "My Last Cigarette" posted by Baz (see above) is now at the Mudcat MIDI site .
Cheers, |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs From: Allan S, Date: 07 Jan 00 - 07:48 PM Red Ingle had a band called Red Ingle and his natural Seven Did stuff like Spike jones with bells whistles and other sounds too fierce to mention |
Subject: Lyr Add: SMOKER'S SONG^^ From: Susanne (skw) Date: 07 Jan 00 - 06:23 PM Maybe this'll cure a few people. If you ever heard Hamish Imlach sing it with his dreadful cough, you know why you've given up smoking! BTW, I have an old '78 recording of 'Cigarettes and Whisky' where the author's name is given as Red Ingle. - Susanne
SMOKERS SONG
Now I'm a social outcast
Some folk get their kicks from alcohol
You can snuff it doing too much exercise
Spare a thought for all the smokers
Yes he is
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Subject: Lyr Add: SMOKING SPIRITUALIZED^^^ From: lamarca Date: 07 Jan 00 - 05:43 PM 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,
The pipe that is so lily-white,
The pipe that is so foul within,
The ashes that are left behind,
The smoke that doth so high ascend, |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs From: ursa Date: 07 Jan 00 - 05:35 PM Great rock song- "Cigarette" by a band called the Clark's. Sorry, don't have the lyrics. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs From: Gene Date: 07 Jan 00 - 04:27 PM Jerry Reed recorded a KILLER of a SMOKING SONG... [Another Puff] haven't played it in ages...will look for it! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs From: Arkie Date: 07 Jan 00 - 03:59 PM When Travis wrote Smoke, Smoke, Smoke (That Cigarette), he did not think of it as an anti-smoking song. He did write another version [Smoke, Smoke, Smoke (But Not Around Me)] at the request of his friend, Grandpa Jones, which was for non-smokers. Don't know if I can find a copy, but will give it a shot. Will not consider it an insult if someone beats me to it. Travis did have a way with words, with music, and with the guitar. and could draw a pretty good picture too. Supposedly a female member of his band claims to be the inspiration for the song. Claimed Trav made a move on her and she stalled by lighting up a cigarette. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs From: Snuffy Date: 07 Jan 00 - 03:02 PM Tony - I didn't forget you. I like it! Have you got any more What about changing the refrain to something like this: I started smoking to look cool
Wassail, Snuffy |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs From: Snuffy Date: 07 Jan 00 - 02:58 PM Thank you, one and all, for your contributions so far. That should give me something to be going on with. I remember hearing both 'My Last Cigarette' and 'Cigareetes and Whusky and Wild, Wild Women' many years ago, but I had forgotten most of the words. Thanks again. Snuffy |
Subject: Lyr Add: CIGAREETES WHUSKY AND WILD WILD WOMEN From: Gene Date: 07 Jan 00 - 01:39 PM CIGAREETES, WHUSKY AND WILD, WILD WOMEN Words and music by Tim Spencer Recorded by The Sons Of The Pioneers, 1947.
CHORUS: [G] Cigareetes and whusky and [C] wild, wild [G] Women,
[G] Once I was happy and [C] had a good [G] wife.
Now I am feeble and broken with age.
Write on the cross at the head of my grave: |
Subject: Lyr Add: SMOKE! SMOKE! SMOKE THAT CIGARETTE!^^^ From: Alfie Date: 07 Jan 00 - 01:07 PM SMOKE! SMOKE! SMOKE THAT CIGARETTE! (Merle Travis) 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 a-doin' 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, pal,--how '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 high-bred, 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 a-goin 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.
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs From: AndyG Date: 07 Jan 00 - 12:00 PM You could look at Harry Rag by Ray Davies.
Point of information:
AndyG |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs From: Allan S. Date: 07 Jan 00 - 09:59 AM What about "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette" 1947 by Merle Travis Sung by Tex Williams, Phil Harris. I think the chorus goes something like "smoke smoke smoke that cigarette, and if you smoke yourself to death Tell Saint Peter at the golden gate he'll just have to wait I just got to have another cigarette" Also "Tobacco is but an Indian Weed" Very old about 1700's I have it on an old record sung by Ray Bougaslovski Who worked with Theo Bickel |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs From: dick greenhaus Date: 07 Jan 00 - 09:51 AM The two country classics on the subject are Smoke, Smoke, Smoke that Cigarette (Merle Travis) and Cigarettes and Whiskey and Wild Wild Women. I don't have the lyrics of either ready to hand, but I'll check 'em out when I get a chance. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs From: Keith Date: 07 Jan 00 - 08:52 AM If you can find it, look for an album from 1975 by Freeman and Lange, called Freeman and Lange. It's a Flying Fish recording #011. I have it on vinyl, but my turntable doesn't work, so I can't get all the lyrics to the song, Non-smokers Liberation Front Anthem by Don Lange. It's a great song--very funny. I just remember one line that comes near the end of the song:
Before your next nico-fit Freeman and Lange were an excellent duo and great songwriters and guitarists. They were an Iowa group based around Iowa City. I don't have any idea what happened to them. For some reason, I think Lange moved to Chicago. |
Subject: Lyr Add: MY LAST CIGARETTE (Sheila Hancock)^^ From: Kernow John Date: 07 Jan 00 - 08:38 AM MY LAST CIGARETTE Sydney Carter/Sheila Hancock [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 that 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've sent the tune to Alan of Oz for Mudcat Midi click here Regards Baz |
Subject: Lyr Add: CANCER AND HEART FAILURE From: Tony Burns Date: 07 Jan 00 - 08:17 AM Great idea Snuffy UK. Here's an offering.
Cancer and Heart Failure Tune : South Australia
Puff away you superkings
I started smoking to look cool
I'm a great guy you can tell
Even though I cough and gag
I wake each morn at 3:15 |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs From: Kernow John Date: 07 Jan 00 - 07:35 AM Snuffy The song JohnP mentions was called My Last Cigarette and was written by Sidney Carter it was Venus or Tarzan according to the singer. I've got it around somewhere and will type it up later. Regards Baz |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs From: johnp Date: 07 Jan 00 - 03:54 AM There was a song [My Last Cigarette] on the wireless circa 1961 I think sung by Miriam Karlin. I remember bits.... Tobacco, tobacco, I hate you I do. Like Venus I'd look if it wasn't for you; But I'll give up the habit; I will even yet 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. Under my eyes are a couple of bags. I blame it all on to a packet of fags, But I'll give up...etc. There was much choking and painful coughing. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs From: Willie-O Date: 06 Jan 00 - 08:04 PM On top of Old Smoke-Free? |
Subject: Lyr Req: Anti-smoking songs From: Snuffy UK Date: 06 Jan 00 - 07:23 PM Anybody know any good anti-smoking songs? Our gang tried to create some but we could only come up with two choruses and no verses - please feel free to add or amend. A collaborative song would be great. 1. Tune : South Australia
Puff away you superkings 2. Tune :Fiddlers Green
Farewell to my Marlboros and Rothmans [Rizla is the major UK brand of papers for hand-rolled cigarettes. I don't know if they're available anywhere else]
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