Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)-Tex Williams

[ti:Smoke Smoke Smoke (That Cigarette)] [ar:Tex Williams] [al:Early Country, Vol. 4] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams [00:03.89]Now I'm a fella with a heart of gold - With the ways of a gentleman I've been told [00:07.88]A kind of a guy that wouldn't even harm a flea [00:09.73] [00:11.32]But if me and a certain character met - The guy that invented the cigarette [00:15.00]I'd murder that son of a gun in the first degree [00:17.05] [00:18.83]It ain't that I don't smoke myself - And I don't reckon they'll hinder your health [00:22.54]I've smoked them all my life and I ain't dead yet [00:24.74] [00:26.41]But nicotine slaves are all the same - At a pettin' party or a poker game [00:30.21]Everythin's gotta stop while you have that cigarette [00:32.07] [00:34.01]Smoke smoke smoke that cigarette puff puff puff and if you smoke yourself to death [00:40.44] [00:41.44]Tell St Peter at the Golden Gate that you hate to make him wait [00:45.00]But you just gotta have another cigarette [00:47.08] [01:04.51]Now at a game of chance the other night - Ol' Dame Fortune was a doin' me right [01:08.23]The kings and queens just kept on comin' round [01:10.77] [01:12.16]And I got a full and I bettet high - But my bluff didn't work on a certain guy [01:16.06]He just kept a risin' and layin' his money down [01:18.21] [01:19.92]He'd raise me and I'd raise him - And I sweated blood you gotta sink or swim [01:23.86]He finally called and he couldn't raise the bet [01:25.94] [01:27.24]I said "aces full pal how about you" - He said "I'll tell you in a minute or two [01:31.75]But right now I just gotta have another cigarette" [01:33.64] [01:35.24]Smoke smoke smoke that cigarette puff puff puff and if you smoke yourself to death [01:41.50] [01:42.48]Tell St Peter at the Golden Gate that you hate to make him wait [01:46.01]But you just gotta have another cigarette [01:48.20] [02:06.12]Now the other night I had me a date - With the cutest little gal in the fifty states [02:09.86]One of them highbred up-town fancy little dames [02:11.73] [02:13.36]She said she loved me and it seemed to me - That things were just about like they oughta be [02:17.45]So hand in hand we strolled down Lover's Lane [02:19.34] [02:20.80]She was oh so far from a chunk of ice - And our smoochin' party was a goin' real nice [02:25.20]So help me Hannah and I think I'd of been there yet [02:27.37] [02:28.74]I give her a kiss and a little squeeze - And she said "would you excuse me please [02:32.77]But I just gotta have another cigarette" [02:34.52] [02:36.44]Smoke smoke smoke that cigarette puff puff puff and if you smoke yourself to death [02:42.88] [02:44.06]Tell St Peter at the Golden Gate that you hate to make him wait [02:47.45]But you just gotta have another cigarette