| Now I’m a fella with a heart of gold | 
| The ways of a gentleman I’ve been told | 
| The kind of a guy that wouldn’t even harm a flea | 
| But if me and a certain character met | 
| That guy that invented that cigarette | 
| I’d murder that son of a gun in the first degree | 
| Now it ain’t 'cause I don’t smoke myself | 
| I don’t reckon they’ll harm your health | 
| I’ve smoked all my life and 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 smoke a cigarette | 
| Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette | 
| Puff, puff, puff and if you smoke yourself to death | 
| Tell Saint Peter at the golden gate that you hate to make him wait | 
| But you got to have another cigarette | 
| In a game of chance the other night | 
| Old Dame Fortune was doing me right | 
| The kings and queens just kept on comin' round | 
| Well, I played 'em hard and I bet 'em high | 
| But my bluff didn’t work on a certain guy | 
| He kept on raisin' and layin' the money down | 
| He’d raise me, and I’d raise him | 
| I sweated blood, you gotta sink or swim | 
| He finally called, and then didn’t raise the bet | 
| I said, «Aces full, pal how 'bout you?» | 
| He said, «I'll tell you in a minute or two | 
| Right now I got to have a cigarette» | 
| Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette | 
| Puff, puff, puff and if you smoke yourself to death | 
| Tell Saint Peter at the golden gate that you hate to make him wait | 
| But you got to have another cigarette | 
| The other night I had a date | 
| With the cutest little gal in the 48 states | 
| A high bred up-town fancy little dame | 
| She said she loved me and it seemed to me That things were about like they oughta be So hand in hand we strolled down lover’s lane | 
| She was oh so far from a cake of ice | 
| Now our pettin' party was going nice | 
| So help me Hannah I think I’d’ve been there yet | 
| But I’d give her a kiss and a little squeeze | 
| And she said, «Johnny, excuse me please | 
| But I’ve just got to have another cigarette» | 
| Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette | 
| Puff, puff, puff and if you smoke yourself to death | 
| Tell Saint Peter at the golden gate that you hate to make him wait | 
| But you got to have another cigarette |