Florence Desmond Cigarettes Cigars Lyrics

Cigarettes Cigars Lyrics

[Spoken] 

Cigarettes, cigars! Cigarettes, cigars! 

Hi, cutie! Over
here! 

Whatta you want? 

Let's see what you got here. Oh, slip us
twenty Camels. 

Okay. 

You're a swell lookin' dame. What are you
doin' in a joint like this? 

Huh. That's what I'd like to know. 



[Singing] 

I was one of those hicks, 

That came here from
the sticks, 

Trying to find the kind of fame 

The name of Broadway
stands for, 

I was one of those fools, 

Who dreamed of riches and
jewels, 

Now I awake, 

Find my mistake, 

I'll get a break,


Broadway's a fake! 



I work in a speak that's dim and dingy,


Where standers are pretenders, cheap and stingy, 

All I smell is
rotten scotch and ginger, 

Cigarettes, cigars! 



Now I've
learned what smoking coke and snow means, 

Among the guys who've never
learned what "no" means, 

You ask me do I know what making dough means,


Cigarettes, cigars! 



To heaven I just send up 

My
lonely plea, 

Is this where I must end up? 

Oh, good Lord, answer
me! 



Every evening as the night life dies out, 

I walk home
to sleep and weep my eyes out, 

Can't you hear a broken heart that cries
out: 

Cigarettes, cigars! Cigarettes, cigars! 



[Spoken] 

Say, have you ever seen Broadway when its glamour is gone? 

When the
nightclubs are closing and the whole world is dozing and sleeping until the
dawn? Why, all its glory and splendor and marvelous sights, they all fade out
together as they turn out the lights, with street beggars mumbling, milk wagons
rumbling, dream castles tumbling in the air. 

Oh, it's lonesome and weary,
friendless and dreary, a pitiful sight of dispair! 



[Singing] 

Every evening as th