Songs about tobacco?
Ranger Rita
>Looking for songs about issues related to tobacco & smoking. All
>viewpoints welcome. Post or e-mail.
>TIA,
>Bonnianne
How about "Smoke Smoke Smoke that Cigarette"? It's an old standard
that everyone has recorded.
"Copenhagen" by Robert EarL Keen
"You're the Reason" by Bobby Edwards
"I'm Down to my Last Cigarette" by k.d.lang
"Copenhagen Angel" by Chris LeDoux
Ranger Rita
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Ron Taylor
Rita) writes:
>
>In <bonamieD...@netcom.com> bon...@netcom.com writes:
>>Looking for songs about issues related to tobacco & smoking. All
>>viewpoints welcome. Post or e-mail.
>>TIA,
>>Bonnianne
>
>How about "Smoke Smoke Smoke that Cigarette"?
I believe that was a Hank Thompson song,
Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette
Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette
And if you smoke yourself to death
Tell St Peter, at the Gate
That you hate to make him wait
But, you just gotta have another cigarette
Also, there's "Fool for a Cigarette" , which Ry Cooder did in the 70's.
And, I remember once hearing a song about chewing tobacco, maybe it's
title was something like "Chaw Tobacco Rag"?
Ron Taylor
Brisbane, Ca
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Jeff Waldron
> >How about "Smoke Smoke Smoke that Cigarette"?
>
> I believe that was a Hank Thompson song,
> It was actually written by Merle Travis and Tex Williams although
Thompson's version was the best known. Recorded by lots of country
artists over the years.
.
> And, I remember once hearing a song about chewing tobacco, maybe it's
> title was something like "Chaw Tobacco Rag"?
> Yes, its by a Western Swing band who I can't recall, maybe the
Lightcrust Doughboys or maybe Spade Cooley (or maybe both).
On the more obscure side, "Cigarette Blues" by Roy Bookbinder and
"Smokin' My Last Cigarette (Don't Let the Coyotes Eat Me)" by California
Zephyr.
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NE|>> Looking for songs about issues related to tobacco & smoking.
NE|>> All viewpoints welcome. Post or e-mail.
Sandburg~Carl,Flat Rock Ballads,Columbia,ML5339
Has a bit on cigarettes ("will kill your babies...").
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John Fereira
>In <bonamieD...@netcom.com> bon...@netcom.com writes:
>>Bonnianne
>
>How about "Smoke Smoke Smoke that Cigarette"? It's an old standard
>that everyone has recorded.
>"Copenhagen" by Robert EarL Keen
>"You're the Reason" by Bobby Edwards
>"I'm Down to my Last Cigarette" by k.d.lang
>"Copenhagen Angel" by Chris LeDoux
goes "toss me a cigarette". There used to be a local folk singer
where I lived that covered it. Inevitably, whenever he sang that line
a couple of cigarettes would get tossed on stage.
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Doug Lyon
How 'bout "Cigaretts, Wiskey, & Wild Wild Women"?
Doug Lyon <ly...@tiac.net>
Doug Lyon
>Which reminds me of another one: "Hooka-Tooka," sung by Chubby
>The refrain:
>Hooka Tooka my soda cracker
>Don't yer mama chaw tobacco
>If yer mama chaw tobacco
>Sing hooka tooka my soda cracker.
Dave VanRonk sang a song, Green Green Rocky Road, on one of his albums
that has this refrain.
Tim Hilliard
(variety deleted...)
>
>Larry Hanks: "Tobacco Is But an Indian Weed" (Long Sleeve)
>
>
>The preceding songs are from a radio program I did last year called "Risk
>Factors". Labels are included, but unfortunately our playlists didn't
>include a field for album titles.
>
The Larry Hanks album title I can provide, it's called "Tying a Knot in
the Devil's Tail" and is a great album if you can find it. I saw Larry
and his ex-wife a couple of months ago and asked him to play "Tobacco..."
but he said his voice wasn't up to the demands of the song. It's a
favorite of mine.
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Ton Maas
Larry John McNally (and covered by Joe Cocker on his album "Civilized
Man")?
Ton Maas, Amsterdam NL
MIKE REGENSTREIF
>In <4i2qo8$2...@cloner4.netcom.com> fat...@ix.netcom.com(Ron Taylor)
>writes:
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>>And, I remember once hearing a song about chewing tobacco, maybe it's
>>title was something like "Chaw Tobacco Rag"?
>
>there are as many isolated verses as people who've tried to sing it.
>Hooka Tooka my soda cracker
>Don't yer mama chaw tobacco
>If yer mama chaw tobacco
>Sing hooka tooka my soda cracker.
>
>you?
>Ranger Rita
That verse is common to "Green Rocky Road," a song that's been done
many times by many artists particularly Dave Van Ronk (who has several
recordings of it). Dave comments that its a New Orleans kids' song.
Mike Regenstreif
"Folk Roots/Folk Branches" on CKUT in Montreal
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MKorki
Companion has a song : Tobacco is Like Love. It is traditional song.
Very Different.
Mike
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Thomas Chiarmonte
I was sitting in the backyard sucking a Good Humor,
along come's the Doc, says "your wife has a tumor" (and it was
malignant)
You get the Idea.
Tom C.
Tisserand
and Brave Combo.
James Calvert Robinson
I don't know what album it's on, but I;ve heard it on local radio...
and then there's "Cigarette" by the Smithereens... a really cool song,
buy not exactly folky though...
rri...@ix.netcom.com (Ranger Rita) wrote:
>In <bonamieD...@netcom.com> bon...@netcom.com writes:
>>Looking for songs about issues related to tobacco & smoking. All
>>viewpoints welcome. Post or e-mail.
>>TIA,
>>Bonnianne
>How about "Smoke Smoke Smoke that Cigarette"? It's an old standard
>that everyone has recorded.
>"Copenhagen" by Robert EarL Keen
>"You're the Reason" by Bobby Edwards
>"I'm Down to my Last Cigarette" by k.d.lang
>"Copenhagen Angel" by Chris LeDoux
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Andy Desjardins
sweet tobacco posie is the Rose of Alabamy.
Great little number recorded by Bobby Horton and Hardtack & Harmony!
Mark Bluemel
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Roger
Chorus
Then drown the fears of coming years,
And the dread of change before us;
The way is sweet to our willing feet,
With the smoke wreaths twining o'er us.
Tune "Sparkling and Bright"
Also,
What about "When I've had just one more cigarette."
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MDresser
"All for me grog
Me jolly, jolly grog
All for me beer and tobacco."
There's also Bob Gibson's "Still Gonna Die," written by Shel Silverstein,
with the passage:
"You can quit smokin, but you're still gonna die
Quit tokin' and cokin,' but you're still gonna die
Eliminate everything fatty or fried
But you're still gonna, still gonna, still gonna die"
("Makin' a Mess," Bob Gibson Sings Shel Silverstein, 1995, Elektra)
Michael Dresser
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Jinxblues
Smoke, smoke, smoke
When you meet St. Peter at the Golden Gate
You'll say, "St. Peter, you'll just have to wait
"Beacuse I've just got to have another cigarette"
-Tex Ritter
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MIKE REGENSTREIF
"Smoke, Smoke, Smoke" was actually co-written by Merle Travis and
someone named Williams; I could be wrong but I don't think it was Hank (and
I know it wasn't Lucinda).
Alan Greenberg
There is a song called "Tobacco's BUt an Indian Weed". I heard it decades
ago sung by Ray (Raphael) Bogoslav. The album was "Songs from a Village
Garret" - Riverside 12-638.
Does anyone know what happened to Ray Bogoslav???
Alan Greenberg
phil kabza
Virginia Consort. A telephone call to the Gift Shop at Williamsburg,
Virginia may locate it. They are a group specializing in music of early
Americana, and had a delightful song about the evils of smoking tobacco,
which could round out a set rather nicely. Good luck.
Wally Macnow
"Tobacco's But An Indian Weed" or "Deadheads and Suckers" to include in
songs about tobacco?
Wally Macnow
Jim LaFronz
>Ian Whitcomb, End of me old cigar. Great song.
>Smoke that cigarette. Written by Tex (not Hank) Williams and Merle
>Travis.
>I'm down to my last cigarette. kd lang
>Two cigarettes in the dark (old jazz song, can't remember who did it)
>Cigarettes, whisky and wild wild women ( cowboy standard)
>Nagasaki (my sister chews tobacci...) old novelty song
>Don't bogart that joint-- not exactly tobacco.
>GUS GARELICK
>Santa Rosa, CA
Keep on smokin' that cigarette you crazy fool.- Don Lange (FF artist)
Philip Luber
"Tamp 'Em Up Solid"
"Fool for a Cigarette"
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Tom Kuhn
which CD it's on. (Home Again?) A friend told me it even uses
the same chord changes as Cocaine Blues.
Pat Kilbride
Tobacco pipes
Tobacco pipes
Tobacco pipes and porter
You'll never sing a longer song
Nor sing one any shorter
Cheers.
Pat