"Give it Up if I Wanted To "

Stephen R Coffee ©2004

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(Thanks to Jim Johnson, accordian, and Jim Clark, cittern.)

I feel like another cigarette

I’ll probably give it up some day

But not yet

 

And I won’t need no stinking patch

I’ll suck it up and tough it out

Got a match

 

I ain’t looking for nobody to sue

Wish you could understand:

Give it up if I wanted to

 

I’m sick and tired of being dissed

It’s not like I’m lighting up a bomb,
not a terrorist

 

I’ll go and stand out on the street

You’d be surprised at what nice people

You can meet

 

And everybody’s got a light for you

And anyone will tell you: they’d

give it up if they wanted to

 

Here comes that cool springtime feeling

Here comes that cool springtime taste

Feels so, feels like…

I feel like another cigarette

 

An early grave is not my goal

That’s what my Daddy always said

Rest his soul

 

These aren’t the worst odds that I’ve had

They only take one out of three

That ain’t bad

 

Grandma smoked till she was, what, 62

Last thing I heard her say:

Give it up if I wanted to.

 

I feel like another cigarette