What would Roosevelt say if he walked into a bar,
To relax with a whiskey and smoke a cigar,
And the bar back ushered him 20 feet from the door?
The man who was leading that Second World War.
Smokers are lazy, unhealthy, degenerates-
Don’t idolize people,
Only their sentiments.
Pick and choose what great things to admire,
Ignore the great minds and their portable fire.
Let’s travel back to 1905,
When Einstein observed the speed of light,
A discovery in one hand and in the other?
His pipe.
Would we live in darkness when the secret was told,
What Edison lit before lighting the bulb?
And what about Orwell, Wilde and Tolkien?
We love all the stories they wrote while chain smokin’.
And we all know of a rebel, who didn’t have cause,
He stole our hearts and he gained our applause.
In honor we printed a stamp with his face,
With his signature cigarette safely erased.
We danced to The Cool and we Flew to the Moon,
Then broke out of Folsom in our Blue Suede Shoes,
With nothing but Subterranean Homesick Blues.
Throw on those records and let’s hear those songs sung,
Our melodies and memories from those famous black lungs.
Marilyn was an icon but her habits, excusable?
And did anyone care when they went to her funeral?
It’s a good thing we’re safe now and given the facts,
About cancer, low birth weight and of course, heart attacks.
Tobacco was fine when it was funding our nation,
Before there was cotton and household radiation.
Another Truth commercial?! Please, change the station.
You can warn us and scare us and force us our health,
And forget all of those who chose for themselves.
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