天籁音乐 抽！抽！抽！(Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!)（在线收听）

 

    我们今天介绍的这首歌是著名的美国乡村音乐巨匠莫尔·特拉维斯(Merle Travis)写给他的友人泰克斯·威廉姆斯(Tex Williams)的。泰克斯是一位资深烟民，吸烟不仅使他染上肺病，也使他的事业日渐消沉。于是，他的朋友莫尔为他写了这首歌，以警戒他吸烟的危害，同时希望能劝勉他戒烟。本歌由泰克斯传唱后，迅速风靡全美，也成为最流行的戒烟歌曲之一。

    虽然这首歌拯救了泰克斯濒危的事业，但却无力挽回他的生命，1985年10月13日，在多次戒烟失败后，泰克斯最终死于晚期肺癌。正如歌中所唱：“抽，抽，抽完那根烟；吐烟圈，吐烟圈，直到吐掉自己的性命；告诉在天堂等待的圣彼得；你不想让他等太久；因此还得再抽一根烟。”（注：原歌曲中含有大量美国南部口语，提供下载的翻唱版的歌词会略有出入。）

Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!(That Cigarette)

　　Now I'm a guy with a heart of gold
　　And the ways of a gentleman I've been told
　　Kind-of-a-guy that wouldn't even harm a flea
　　
　　But if me and a certain character met
　　The man who invented that cigarette
　　I'd murder that son-of-a gun in the first degree
　　
　　It ain't cuz I don't smoke 'em myself
　　and i don't think that it'll hurt my health
　　I smoked 'em 25 years and I ain't dead yet
　　
　　But nicotine slaves are all the same
　　at a pettin' party or a poker game
　　Everything gotta stop while they have a cigarette
　　
　　CHORUS
　　
　　Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette
　　Puff, puff, puff until you puff yourself to death.
　　Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate
　　That you hate to make him wait,
　　You just gotta have another cigarette.
　　
　　In a game of chance the other night
　　Old dame fortune was good and right
　　The kings and queens they kept on comin' around
　　
　　Aw, I was hittin' em good and bettin' 'em high
　　But my bluff didn't work on a certain guy
　　He kept callin' and layin' his money down
　　
　　See, he'd raise me then I'd raise him
　　and I'd say to him buddy ya gotta sink or swim
　　Finally called me but didn't raise the bet!
　　
　　Hmmph! I said Aces Full Pal -- I got you!
　　He said, "I'll pay up in a minute or two
　　But right now, i just gotta have another cigarette."
　　
　　CHORUS
　　
　　Now the other night I had a date
　　with the cutest little gal in the 51 state
　　A high-bred, uptown, fancy little dame
　　
　　She said she loved me and it seemd to me
　　That things were sorta like they suppose to be
　　So hand in hand we strolled down lovers lane
　　
　　She was a long way from a chunk of ice
　　And our pettin' party was goin' real nice
　　And I got an idea I might have been there yet
　　
　　So I give her a kiss and a little squeeze
　　Then she said, "Johnny, Excuse me Please
　　But I just gotta have a cigarette."
　　
　　CHORUS