Smoke! Smoke! Smoke (That Cigarette)-Ted Weems

[ti:Smoke! Smoke! Smoke (That Cigarette)] [ar:Ted Weems] [al:1000 Hits of the Forties, Vol. 31] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.05]Smoke! Smoke! Smoke (That Cigarette) - Ted Weems [00:04.17]Now I'm a fella with a heart of gold [00:05.79]The ways of a gentleman [00:06.76]I've been told [00:07.78]The kind of a guy that wouldn't even harm a flea [00:10.12] [00:11.40]But if me and a certain character met [00:13.40]That guy that invented that cigarette [00:14.98]I'd murder that son of a gun in the first degree [00:17.39] [00:18.93]Well not because I don't smoke myself [00:21.18]I don't reckon they'll harm your health [00:22.76]I've smoked all my life and I'm not dead yet [00:24.99] [00:26.84]But nicotine slaves are all the same [00:28.33]At a pettin' party or a poker game [00:30.12]Everything's gonna stop while they smoke a cigarette [00:32.70] [00:34.33]Smoke smoke smoke that cigarette [00:36.55] [00:38.24]Puff puff puff [00:39.25]And if you smoke yourself to death [00:41.40]Tell Saint Peter at the golden gate [00:43.20]That you hate to make him wait [00:45.15]But you got to have another cigarette [00:48.13] [01:04.74]Now in a game of chance the other night [01:06.25]Old Dame Fortune was doing me right [01:08.57]The kings and queens 'em just kept on comin' round [01:11.07] [01:12.58]Then I get fall night better time [01:14.06]But my bluff didn't work on a certain guy [01:15.89]He just kept on raisin' and layin' that money down [01:18.70] [01:19.99]Yeah he'd raise me and I'd raise him [01:21.73]I sweated blood gotta sink or swim [01:23.51]He finally called but he didn't raise the bet [01:26.01] [01:27.47]I said aces full pal [01:28.66]How 'bout you [01:29.33]He said well I'm gonna tell you in a minute or two [01:31.40]But right now I just got to have a cigarette [01:33.70] [01:35.44]Smoke smoke smoke that cigarette [01:37.65] [01:39.26]Puff puff puff [01:40.26]And if you smoke yourself to death [01:42.57]Tell Saint Peter at the golden gate [01:44.62]That you hates to make him wait [01:46.03]But you just gotta have another cigarette [01:49.18] [02:06.06]Now the other night I had a date [02:07.36]With the cutest little gal in the 48 states [02:09.78]A high bred up town fancy little dame [02:11.97] [02:13.50]Now she said she loved me [02:14.45]And it seemed to me [02:15.25]That things were about like they oughtta be [02:17.23]So hand in hand we strolled down lover's lane [02:19.84] [02:20.93]She was oh so far from a cake of ice [02:22.93]Our smoochin' party was going real nice [02:25.31]So help me Hannah I think I'd've been there yet [02:27.40] [02:28.91]But I'd give her a kiss and a little squeeze [02:30.73]And she said Tex would you excuse me please [02:32.77]But I just got to have a another cigarette [02:34.98] [02:36.70]Smoke smoke smoke that cigarette [02:38.91] [02:40.56]Puff puff puff [02:41.69]And if you puff yourself to death [02:43.99]Tell Saint Peter at the golden gate [02:45.69]That you hate to make him wait [02:47.42]But you just got to have another cigarette [02:50.93]