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Tobacco Stains

from The Human Conditional by Bill White

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Brown tobacco stains on my dentures
yellow tobacco stains on my fingers and hands
Ive lived my life in Marlboro country
now they tell me I have to change my brand

My daddy told me smoking was fine
as long as your cgarettes were the right kind
Its death to all species of mammal
to suck on a filterless camel
But even if Winston tasted good
it wasn’t make the way a cigarette should
It had a filter that was filled with fiberglass
cut up your lungs like a mower cuts grass
And if you suck so low to smoke a n Elite-a you
might as well suck on a buttt off of the street-a
My boy your fate will be sealed
if you play the tough guy with the chesterfirlds
One puff off a virgina slim
you wont remember if you’re a her or a him
And don’t nod your head in assent
if some reporter offers you a kent
And if you smoke in the bathroom at school
don’t let the hall monitor catch you with a kool
Now all the advice my daddy gave me
is archaic and not relevant these days
Bcause the cigarette machine at the factory
aint stocking any of those brands anyways
They got tobacco enhanced with plutonium
you can puff but you wont blow any smoke
They got cigarettes filled with marijuana
but you get dizzy after only one toke
You can take your nicotime intravaneously t
hey’ve even turned tobacco into gum
Im hiding out with my rolling papers
and an old rusty tin of drum
When that is gone ill pack away my memories
all of the pleasure and the pain
I wont ever smoke another marboro
but I still still have my tobacco stains

Brown tobacco stains on my dentures
yellow tobacco stains on my hands
I ve lived a good life in Marlboro country
in Marlboro country ill make my last stand

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from The Human Conditional, released June 30, 2018
written and performed by Bill White

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