Folk Songs About Cigarettes

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

Paul Simon\ America

[played in 2006]
Del Rey\ Smoke a Cigarette First\ Snap Shot\ Hobemian
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]
Merle Travis' "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke (That Cigarette)" has been covered by
Curtis & Loretta, Tex Williams 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?

Peggy Seeger - It's A Free World
An Odd Collection (Rounder)

Jez Lowe - Aloysius
Tenterhooks
(line "And you poison us with your scent & cigarettes")

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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