Name: No More Pipe Tobacco
Channel: Joe Aldworth
Description: Free MP3 download. At the cigarette store, they sell pipe tobacco, (which is not supposed to be inhaled), at a fraction of the cost of cigarette tobacco. So, now we have a minor epidemic of people making their cigarettes using pipe tobacco. :(

No More Pipe Tobacco

Joe Aldworth

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At the cigarette store, they sell pipe tobacco, (which is not supposed to be inhaled), at a fraction of the cost of cigarette tobacco. So, now we have a minor epidemic of people making their cigarettes using pipe tobacco. :(

smoking cigarettes pipe pipe tobacco tobacco

Joe Aldworth

I'm a fifty nine year old musician. I play guitar, harmonica, and I sing.

My music, I hope, will not die when I die. I'm trying to create a legacy that my kids can listen to as well as other people should they want to. I'm getting pretty old, and my health is not good. But yeah. That about sums up my music thing. That looks more like an obituary. My brother Jimmy got me playing as a teenager, and he went to be with the Lord, as well as my brother Steve, but my love for music has not ceased. Not at all.

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Folk

Charts

Peak #196

Peak in subgenre #25

Author

Joe Aldworth

Rights

c 2014

Uploaded

May 03, 2014

Track Files

MP3

MP3 2.5 MB • 128 kbps • 2:46

Story behind the song

Ihaling pipe tobacco smoke is not wise. And yet it's the only way for most people to afford to be able to smoke. I ended up rolling my own cigarettes, buying filtered tubes and pipe tobacco, and the smoke from the cigarettes almost kills me.

Lyrics

I've had to smoke, I've had to smoke, I've had to smoke less 
I'm coughing up the dregs of hell, got this feeling in my chest 
The chemicals in pipe tobacco aren't to be inhaled 
Yet I've been inhaling the garbage , and my heart is gonna fail  

 But for tonight, I'll just keep smoking, you know it's just my thing 
They ask me at the hospital if I ever think of quitting
I think twice when I see my hands, looking at the stains
Maybe instead of a cigarette, have a look at things

 What I'm complaining about is the price of pipe tobacco 
That is, it's cheap as hell, but cigarette tobacco is double 
Really three times the price of pipe tobacco, and I don't even own a pipe 
Yet I've been going through three pounds a month, I feel like an idiot 

 So I'm gonna buy cigarette tobacco. Screw the people that 
Tax the hell out of good tobacco for the hell of it 
'Cause everyone loves a loophole, and we thought that we'd found one 
But I can no longer breathe at night; no more smoking fun 

 No more pipe tobacco fumes going in my lungs 
No more pipe tobacco fumes going in my lungs
No more pipe tobacco fumes going in my lungs 
No more pipe tobacco fumes going in my lungs

 (Don't want it, the pipe tobacco, don't want it at all 
I'd rather scour the ashtrays downtown, looking through them all 
Pick through the lipstick-filters looking for a big one 
Than smoke any more pipe tobacco. Call me if you find some *)

 Someone's trying to kill us off with this pipe tobacco
Someone's gonna kill us off, I don't like it at all 
Take the tax off cigarettes and let us smoke in peace 
Spread the word on this crap they're selling, let the madness cease 






This is one of the verses I edited out when I re-recorded the song. But it  shows how low we will sink to find even half a cigarette when we're having a nicotine fit.  I've been there and it feels pretty sleazy.

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