My Dainty Cigarette 1894

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 13 Jul 2004

When you've been down to the bank all day,
Trying to think when your thoughts will stray,
Counting up figures the whole day long,
how can you wonder they're often wrong,
figuring over a musty book,
making it balance by hook or crook.
I'll tell you a plan to quiet a man,
a cosey divan in a nook.

[Business of lighting a cigarette:]

You take your cigarette
and then you puff it so,
A puff! A puff!
And watch the smoke ascending
in a cloud so slow,
A puff! A puff!
There's nothing in this world
my boys that can compare,
with its perfume so rich and rare.
As upon my couch reclining
puffing clouds with silver lining,
from my dainty cigarette puff!

[Dance: Gavotte:]

When you been down to the club, my boys,
And you've indulged in its liquid joys,
Trying to see who can drink the most,
making excuses to drink a toast,
after the most of the night has flown,
and in your room you are all alone.
Directly you get a fresh cigarette,
then worry and fret are unknown.

[Business of lighting a cigarette:]

You take your cigarette
and then you puff it so,
A puff! A puff!
And watch the smoke ascending
in a cloud so slow,
A puff! A puff!
There's nothing in this world
my boys that can compare,
with its perfume so rich and rare.
As upon my couch reclining
puffing clouds with silver lining,
from my dainty cigarette puff!

[Dance: Gavotte:]

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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My Dainty Cigarette 1894
Lyrics by Walter H. Ford
Music by John W. Bratton
© 1894 by M. Witmark & Sons.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Tuesday 13 Julky 2004 at 12.25
in association with Doug Grierson
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Another Novelty. My Dainty Cigarette. March Song and Gavotte Refrain.
Words by Walter H. Ford. Music by John W. Bratton.
M. Witmark & Sons, 51 West 28th Street, 1894.
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