One, two, three, four.
Now, it's not because I don't smoke myself, and I've read the thing, it'll harm your health, but I've smoked them all my life, and I ain't dead yet.
But nicotine slaves are all the same at a peasant party or a poker game.
Everything must stop while they have that cigarette.
Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette.
Pop, pop, pop it if you smoke yourself to death.
Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate that he hates the making.
Wait, but you gotta have another cigarette.
Gotta have another.
Now, in the game of chance the other night, old Bing Fortune was a-doing me right.
The kings and the queens just kept on coming round.
Well, I played them hard, and I let them high, but I left it to work on a certain guy.
He kept on raising and laying his money down.
Now, he'd raise me, and I'd raise him.
I sweated blood, I got a scent to swim, and he finally called and didn't raise the bet.
I said, age is full, pal, how about you?
He said, I'll tell you in a minute or two, but right now, I've gotta have a cigarette.
Oh, smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette.
Pop, pop, pop it if you smoke yourself to death.
Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate that you hate the making.
Wait, but you gotta have another cigarette.
Gotta have another.
Now, the other night, I had a date with a curious little girl.
In 50 states, a high-brown, uptown, fancy little lady.
She said she loved me, and it seemed to me that that thing was going about as it ought to be.
And so, hand in hand, we walked down Lover's Lane.
She was old so far from a cake, a bison, a smooch, and probably was a-going nice.
She helped me hammer, I think I'd have been there yet.
I gave her a kiss and a little squeeze, and she said, oh, Sam, excuse me, please, but I just gotta have another cigarette.
Oh, smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette.
Smoke, smoke, smoke it if you smoke yourself to death.
Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate that you hate the making.
Wait, but you gotta have another cigarette.
You gotta have another cigarette.
And the next time, don't bring no filters.
And the next time, don't bring no filters.