[Verse 1]
Now I'm a fellow with a heart of gold
With the ways of a gentleman I've been told
A kind of a fellow that wouldn't even harm a flea
But if me and a certain character met
That guy that invented the cigarette
I'd murder that son of a gun in the first degree
That ain't that I don't smoke myself
And I don't reckon they'll injure your health
I've smoked them all my life and I ain't dead yet
But nicotine slaves are all the same
At a pheasant party or a poker game
Everything's got to stop when they have that cigarette

[Chorus]
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 got to have another cigarette

[Verse 2]
Now at a game of chance the other night
Old Dame Forson wasn't doing me right
Them kings and queens just kept on coming round
Well I got a full and I bet it high
But my plug didn't work on a certain guy
He just kept a rising and a laying that money down
He's raise me and I'd raise him
I sweated blood I had to sink or swim
He finally called and he didn't raise the bet
I said "aces is full pal how about you?"
He said "I'll tell you in a minute or two
But I just got to have another cigarette"