SMOKE, SMOKE, SMOKE THAT CIGARETTE

Smoke,Smoke,Smoke That Cigarette:

Commander Cody
and His Lost Planet Airmen.
On the charts in 1973. (Tex Wiliiams hit #5 on Billboard
and #1 on C/W charts in 1947.)

#1.
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Now I'm a fellow with a heart of gold,
        D      
And the ways of a gentleman I've been told,
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kind of a guy that wouldn't even harm a flea.
A
But if me and a certain character met,
    D
the guy that invented the cigarette,
    E                                       A
I'd murder that son-of-a gun in the first degree.

#2.
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It ain't cause I don't smoke 'em myself,
      D
and I don't reckon that it'll hinder your health,
  E                                        A
I smoked 'em all my life, and I ain't dead yet.
A
But nicotine slaves are all the same,
     D
at a pettin' party or a poker game,
E                                             A
everything gotta stop, while they have a cigarette.

CHORUS:
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Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette.
                           B                 E
Puff, puff, puff until you smoke yourself to death.
E        A
Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate,
         D
that you hate to make him wait,
             A            E          A
but you just gotta have another cigarette.

#3.
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In a game of chance the other night,
D
Old Dame Fortune was good and right,
    E                                     A
The kings and queens they kept on comin' around.
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Aw, I was hittin' 'em good and bettin' 'em high,
       D
but my bluff didn't work on a certain guy,
        E                             A
he kept callin', and layin' his money down.
A
See, he'd raise me, then I'd raise him,
    D
and I'd say to him buddy, ya gotta sink or swim,
   E                                      A
he finally called me but didn't raise the bet.
A
Hmmm..I said, Aces Full, pal..I got you!
         D
He said, I'll pay up in a minute or two,
    E                                         A
but right now, I just gotta have another cigarette.

CHORUS:
A
Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette.
                           B                 E
Puff, puff, puff until you smoke yourself to death.
E        A
Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate,
         D
that you hate to make him wait,
             A            E          A
but you just gotta have another cigarette.

#4.
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Now the other night I had a date,
         D
with the cutest little gal in any state,
       E                          A
a high-bred, uptown, fancy little dame.
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She said she loved me and it seemd to me,
     D
that things were sorta like they oughtta be,
    E                                    A
so, hand in hand we strolled down lovers lane.
A
She was a long way from a chunk of ice,
        D
and our pettin' party was goin' real nice,
      E                                    A
and I got an idea I might have been there, yet.
A
So I give her a kiss and a little squeeze,
               D
Then she said, Travis, excuse me please,
    E                       A
but I just gotta have a cigarette.

CHORUS:
A
Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette.
                           B                 E
Puff, puff, puff until you smoke yourself to death.
E        A
Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate,
         D
that you hate to make him wait,
             A            E          A
but you just gotta have another cigarette.