Talkin' Cancer Blues

Lyrics for Talkin' Cancer Blues

I was sitting in the backyard sucking a Good Humor Along comes a doc, says my wife has a tumor And it was malignant Now the AMA and the medical highers They don't agree with Liggett and Myers They say smoking is bad for you It'll give you cancer Hell of a cough too Well there's cancer of the liver There's cancer of the lung Cancer of the lip, throat, the tongue There's seventeen malignant tumors In one filter-dipped king size Light up Well a cigarette was needed that was relatively clean They come out with filters, no tar And nicotine, pretty low on sales too All that research gone to waste No harmful ingredients No cigarette taste Well the companies panicked They had to find the answer They increased the tobacco strength Everybody's getting cancer Look what I got free with these cigarette coupons A chest x-ray Well the hashish interest in Mexico Has found a way to redouble their dough They got a weed Has no tar, so they say Let's all get the habit Marijuana's here to stay So if you want a treat And you don't mind the treatment Smoke pot That's the thinking man's cigarette