Folk Songs About Cigarettes

The Great American SmokeOut falls on the third Thursday in November.

[played in 2008]
Tex Williams \ Smoke, Smoke, Smoke  (That Cigarette) \ Vintage Collections \ Capitol
Del Rey \ Smoke a Cigarette First \ Snap Shot \ Hobemian
Peggy Seeger \ It's A Free World \ An Odd Collection \ Rounder

[played in 2006]
John Jackson\ Chesterfield\ Front Porch Blues\ Alligator
Patsy Cline\ Two Cigarettes in an Ashtray\ The Birth of a Star\ Razor & Tie
Doc & Merle Watson\ Smoke, Smoke, Smoke\ Black Mountain Rag\ Rounder
Adolph Hofner & his Texans\ Better Quit It Now\ Doughboys, Playboys and Cowboys, Vol. 3 (VA)\ Proper

[also]
John Lennon \ Cold Turkey
Curtis & Loretta \ Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) \ Gone Forever \ Self
Paul Simon\ America

Merle Travis' "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke (That Cigarette)" has been covered by
Curtis & Loretta and others.

K.D. Lang / "Drag" album

"Cigareets, Whuskey And Wild, Wild Women" has been recorded by
Sons of the Pioneers, Homer & Jethro, Red Ingle, the Wilburn Brothers and others.

Talking Cancer Blues \ DAVE VAN RONK \ Inside \ Prestige
Smokemon \ CAPITOL STEPS \ It's Not over til the First Lady Sings \ CS
Another Puff \ JERRY REED \ The Essential \ RCA
Cigarette Blues \ YANK RACHELL \ Blues Mandolin Man \ Blind Pig

Hoyt Axton - Roll Your Own

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (many versions) - Spike Jones?

Josh White "Don't Smoke In Bed"
Fats Waller "Smoke Dreams Of You"
Bob Miller "Four Cent Tobacco And Forty Cent Meat"
The Red Hots "Gimme Chaw Tobacco" (or the Carter Brothers or Dillards)

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