Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette    Merle Travis/Tex Ritter      1. Now I'm a fella with a heart of gold - With the ways of a gentleman I've been told   A kind of a 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      2. It ain't that I don't smoke myself - And I don't reckon they'll hinder your health   I've smoked them all my life and I ain't dead yet   But nicotine slaves are all the same - At a pettin' party or a poker game   Everythin's gotta stop while you have that 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      3. Now at a game of chance the other night - Ol' Dame Fortune was a doin' me right   The kings and queens just kept on comin' round   And I got a full and I bettet high - But my bluff didn't work on a certain guy   He just kept a risin' and layin' his money down      4. He'd raise me and I'd raise him - And I sweated blood you gotta sink or swim   He finally called and he couldn't raise the bet   I said “aces full pal how about you” - He said “I'll tell you in a minute or two   But right now I just gotta have another cigarette”      Smoke smoke smoke...   [ piano ]      5. Now the other night I had me a date - With the cutest little gal in the fifty states   One of them highbred up-town fancy little dames   She said she loved me and it seemed to me - That things were just about like they oughta be   So hand in hand we strolled down Lover's Lane      6. She was oh so far from a chunk of ice - And our smoochin' party was a goin' real nice   So help me Hannah and I think I'd of been there yet   I give her a kiss and a little squeeze - And she said “would you excuse me please   But I just gotta have another cigarette”      Smoke smoke smoke... X 2   You just gotta have another cigarette