smoke, smoke, smoke (that cigarette)

now i'm a feller with a heart of gold

and the ways of a gentleman i've been told

the kind of 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

it ain't 'cause i don't smoke myself

and i don't reckon that it'll harm your health

smoked all my life and i ain't dead yet

but nicotine slaves are all the same

at a pettin' party or a poker game

everything gotta stop while they have a cigarette

smoke

smoke

smoke that cigarette

puff

puff

puff and if you smoke yourself to death

tell st. peter at the golden gate

that you hate to make him wait

but you just gotta have another cigarette

now in a game of chance the other night

old dame fortune was a doin' me right

the kings and the queens just kept on comin' round

and i got a full and i bet 'em high

but my bluff didn't work on a certain guy

he just kept on raisin' and layin' that money down

now he'd raise me and i'd raise him

i sweated blood

gotta sink or swim

he finally called and didn't even raise the bet

so i said aces full pops how 'bout you?"