Cigarettes & Whiskey And Wild, Wild Women
Words & Music:
Ramblin Jack Elliott
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Cigarettes and whiskey and wild, wild women,
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They'll drive you crazy they'll drive you insane.
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Cigarettes and whiskey and wild, wild women,
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They'll drive you crazy they'll drive you insane.
Once, I was happy and had a good wife.
I had enough money to last me for life.
I met with a gal and we went on a spree.
She started me smokinÕ and drinkinÕ whiskey.
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Now, I am feeble and broken with age.
The lines on my face make a well-written page.
IÕm leavinÕ this message how sad, but how true,
On women and whiskey and what they can do.
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Write on the cross at the head of my grave:
"For women and whiskey, here lies a poor slave.
Take warning, dear stranger. Take warning, dear friend."
Then write in big letters these words at the end:
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Cigarettes are a blight on the whole human race.
A man is a monkey with one in his face.
Take warning, dear friend. Take warning, dear brother:
A fire on one end a fool on the other.
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