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 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