now i m a fellow with a heart of gold with the ways of a gentleman i ve been told the kind of fellow 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 course it ain t cause i don t smoke myself and i don t reckon they 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 everything s gotta stop while they smokes a cigarette tell st peter at the golden gate that you hates to make him wait you ve gotta have another cigarette in a game of chance the other night old dame fortune was doin me right the kings and the queens just kept on comin around 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 he d raise me i d raise him i sweated blood you gotta sink or swim he finally called didn t raise the bet i said aces full pal how bout you he said i ll tell you in just a minute or two right now i just gotta have myself a cigarette  tell st peter at the golden gate that you hates to make him wait you ve gotta have another cigarette the other night i had me a date with the cutest little gal on east 50 states one em high bred uptown fancy little dames she said she loved me and it seemed to me that everything s bout like it oughta be so hand in hand we strolled down lover s lane she was oh so far from a chunk of ice our smoochin party was goin real nice so help me hannah i m thinking i ve been there yet i give her a kiss a little squeeze she said tex excuse me please but i just gotta have a filtered cigarette tell st peter at the golden gate that you hates to make him wait you ve just gotta have another cigarette