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now folks i got this smoking habit see, and i know the habit's bad, but the worse thing about smoking, is it makes them nonsmokers so mad, they say if you gonna puff them things, go sit in the smoking section please, they put us in a ward like a bunch of cows, with the hoof in mouth disease, and all i hear is cigarets, their bad for you dude, well that may be friends, but i like them, every way but bar-b-q'ed, and when i'm ready to quit smoking, don't worry it'll be a breeze, but right now friend, better stick me in, the smoking section please, i'm a slave, he's a slave, i'm a slave, he's a slave, i'm a poor helpless victim, to the thing my body craves, his body craves, now i know my smoking habit's rotten, and i hate myself for ever starting, but right now friend i could eat a carton, cause i'm a slave, ooo-ooooo, now folks back home there was this dude, that would gamble at the drop of your hat, you know the kind, he has to raise all the time, and cover every bet, well one night he was having a run of luck, and all his luck was bat, done lost his money lost his car, he done lost everything he had, and i'm trying to drag him, out of that poker game, and he's a hanging on to my arm, jerry loan me ten, help me get back in, i'll win a ribbon farm, well i loaned him ten then twenty, friends they was picking me to the bone, and when i stopped the game, all that remain, was my cab-fair home, i said hey if i was stuck with your luck, believe i'd leave that poker alone, he said jerry it ain't nothing but dough, and money ain't got no home, loan me ten, i'm a slave, he's a slave, i'm a slave, he's a slave, i'm a poor helpless victim, to the thing my body craves, his body craves, but there is some good, to come out of this friends, there's always one bet you can win, you bet this cowboy, will bet um again, cause i'm a slave, ooo-ooooo, well now i ain't seen my next-door neighbor, in a week or so i guess, till yesterday and he was all bandaged up, and in this body cast, i said well from the looks of you son, uh the wreck must have been bad, he said no this is what happens jerry, when your ol lady gets mad, he said it was last saturday night and i was in this bar, had a blonde on my knee, when i look up and there's my ol lady, looking right down on me, well she grabbed that blonde, and they was a having a championship bout, i stood up and said now honey wait a minuet, and i never should open my mouth, cause she come right across my head with a bottle, yelling save that country jive, and what she done to me, was world war three, and i'm lucky to be alive, and i said let that be a lesson son, maybe this flame will be your last, he said hey me and you, know what i'm gonna do, soon as i get out of this cast, i'm a slave, he's a slave, i'm a slave, he's a slave, don't put the pressure on me, it effects how i behave, how he behaves, i love them short fat skinny ones, i like them brunets i love the blonds, i can't help it, its a lot of fun, i'm a slave, he's a slave, i'm a slave, he's a slave, i'm a poor helpless victim, to the thing my body craves, his body craves, well i was laying in the floor, half killed asking myself, was it worth the thrill?, will you do it again, you know i will, cause i'm a slave, uh hello sugar babe, uh you ain't got a cigaret on you have you, yeah well i guess borrowing ten is out of the question ain't it,
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Artist: reed, jerry