Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette Song Lyrics and Chords
Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette Song Lyrics and Chords by Hank Thompson
Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette
Recorded by Hank Thompson
Written by Merle Travis
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Now I'm a fellar with a heart of gold
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ways of a gentleman I've been told
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kind of a fellar that
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wouldn't even harm a
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flea
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But if
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me and a certain character met
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guy that invented the cigarette
I'd
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murder that son-of-a-
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gun in the first de
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gree
Now it ain't 'cause I don't smoke myself
And I
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don't reckon that they hinder your health
I've
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smoked 'em all my
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life and I ain't dead
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yet
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But
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nicotine slaves are all the same
At a
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petting party or a poker game
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thing's gotta stop while they
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smoke the ciga
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rette
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Smoke smoke smoke that ciga
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rette
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Puff puff puff it if you
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smoke yourself to
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death
Tell
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Saint Peter at the Golden Gate
That you
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hate to make him
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wait
You've just gotta have
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another
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In a game of chance the other night
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Dame Fortune was a-doing me right
Man the
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kings and queens
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just kept on coming
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around
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I got a full and I bet it high
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bluff didn't work on a certain guy
He just
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keep on raising and
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laying the money
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down
Now he'd raise me I'd raise him
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sweated blood you gotta sink or swim
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finally called
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didn't raise the
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bet
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said aces full pal how about you
He said
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well I'll tell you in just a minute or two
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right now I just gotta have
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myself a ciga
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Now the other night I had me a date
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the cutest little gal in the fifty states
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highbred uptown
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fancy little
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dame
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She
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said she loved me and it seemed to me
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everything was about like it oughta be
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hand in hand we strolled
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down lover's
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She was oh so far from a chunk of ice
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our smooching party was going real nice
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help me Hanna I
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think I'd-a been there
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Well
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I give her a kiss a little squeeze
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said Hank excuse me please
But I
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just gotta have myself a
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FAQ
Who sang the the song Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette?
- The song Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette was sang by Hank Thompson.
Who is Hank Thompson?
- Henry William Thompson (September 3, 1925 - November 6, 2007) was an American country music singer-songwriter and musician whose career spanned seven decades.
Thompson's musical style, characterized as honky-tonk Western swing, was a mixture of fiddles, electric guitar, and steel guitar that featured his distinctive, smooth baritone vocals.
His backing band, The Brazos Valley Boys, was voted the top Country Western Band for 14 years in a row by Billboard. Thompson pursued a "light" version of the Western swing sound that Bob Wills and others played the primary difference between his music and that of Bob Wills was that Thompson, who used the swing beat and instrumentation to enhance his vocals, discouraged the intense instrumental soloing from his musicians that Wills encouraged however, the "Hank Thompson sound" exceeded Bob Wills in top-40 country hits.
Although not as prominent on the top country charts in later decades, Thompson remained a recording artist and concert draw well into his 80s.
The 2013 game Grand Theft Auto V featured his song "It Don't Hurt Anymore" in the fictional radio show, Rebel Radio.
The 1987 novel Crazy Heart by Thomas Cobb was inspired by Thompson's life, specifically by his practice of picking up a local band to back him when he toured. In 2009, Cobb's novel was turned into a successful film directed by Scott Cooper and starring Jeff Bridges in an Academy Award-winning performance.