A Good Cigar Is A Smoke 1905 'Miss Dolly Dollar'

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 11 Jan 2004

If a pair of blue eyes have deceived you,
and a pair of red lips said you nay,
don't appeal to champagne,
all its bubbles are vain,
you will only feel worse the next day.
Just forget fortune's snub
and drop in at the club
where you know all the good fellows are.
There the tonic you're after
is gossip and laughter,
you light up a long dark cigar.

Puff, puff, puff, puff,
watching the smoke arising;
Puff, puff, puff, puff,
soon you'll be realizing
that which the poet has written is true,
all love is a practical joke;
For a woman is only a woman, my boy,
but a good cigar is a smoke.

Puff, puff, puff, puff,
watching the smoke arising;
Puff, puff, puff, puff,
soon you'll be realizing
that which the poet has written is true,
all love is a practical joke;
For a woman is only a woman, my boy,
but a good cigar is a smoke.

When you find that your latest flirtation
is becoming too serious quite,
and you're getting too fond
of a brunette or blonde,
call a halt, lad,
and set yourself right.
Love perhaps ends in smoke,
but its rings are no joke,
they dissolve not to vanish afar;
they are put on to stay there,
they won't float away there,
like rings you blow from your cigar.

Puff, puff, puff, puff,
watching the smoke arising;
Puff, puff, puff, puff,
soon you'll be realizing
that which the poet has written is true,
all love is a practical joke;
For a woman is only a woman, my boy,
but a good cigar is a smoke.

Puff, puff, puff, puff,
watching the smoke arising;
Puff, puff, puff, puff,
soon you'll be realizing
that which the poet has written is true,
all love is a practical joke;
For a woman is only a woman, my boy,
but a good cigar is a smoke.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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A Good Cigar Is A Smoke 1905
Lyrics by Harry B. Smith
Music by Victor Herbert
copyright MCMV by M. Witmark and Sons.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Sunday 11 January 2004 at 09.17
in association with Doug Grierson
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Performer: Lulu Glasser in Charles Dillingham's Production
of "Miss Dolly Dollar." A Musical Comedy.
Music by Victor Herbert. Lyrics by Harry Smith.
Harry Smith Publication: New York: M. Witmark & Sons, 1905.
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"A Woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke,"
as a comment attributed to W. C. Fields yet I was surprised
to see it as a song title in 1905. Of some interest for the
quotation buffs...... :-)
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