1. Now I'm a fella with a heart of gold - With the ways of a gentleman I've been told
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The kind of a guy that wouldn't even harm a flea
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But if me and a certain character met - That guy that invented the cigarette
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I'd murder that son of a gun in the first degree
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2. It ain't that I don't smoke myself - And I don't reckon they'll hinder your health
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I've smoked them all my life and I ain't dead yet
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But nicotine slaves are all the same - At a bettin’ party or a poker game
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Everything's gotta stop when I have that cigarette
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Smoke smoke smoke that cigarette puff puff puff and if you smoke yourself to death
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Tell St Peter at the Golden Gate that you hate to make him wait
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But you just gotta have another cigarette
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3. Now at a game of chance the other night - Ol' Dame Fortune was a doin' me right
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Them kings and queens just kept on comin' round
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Now I got a full and I betted high - But my broth didn't work on a certain guy
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He just kept a raisin' and layin' his money down
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4. He'd raise me and I'd raise him - I sweated blood I had to sink or swim
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He finally called and then didn't raise the bed
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I said “aces full pal how about you” - He said “I'll tell you in a minute or two
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But I just gotta have another cigarette”
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(Chorus) Smoke smoke smoke...
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[ piano ]
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5. Now the other night I had a date - With the cutest little gal in the fifty states
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A highbred up-town social event
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She said she loved me and it seemed to me - That things were about like they oughta be
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So hand in hand we strolled down Lover's Lane
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6. She was oh so far from a chunk of ice - And our smoochin' party was a goin' real nice
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So help me Hannah I think I'd been there yet
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I give her a kiss and a little squeeze - And she said “Jim, excuse me please
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But I just gotta have another cigarette”
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(Chorus) Smoke smoke smoke... X 2
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Gotta have another cigarette...you can keep pickin' if you want to but I'm gonna light one up...(coughs) now boy that's real coughin'!
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Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette
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| Jimmy Dean |
