My Only Woodbine

DESCRIPTION: "My only Woodbine, my double Woodbine, Don't give me Players or Craven A" or other cigarettes, but "Please don't take my Woodbine away" even though they make the singer's throat sore. Eventually, "I cannot smoke the Woodbines any more"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1979 (Hopkins-SongsFromTheFrontAndRear)
KEYWORDS: soldier drugs hardtimes derivative
FOUND IN: Canada
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Hopkins-SongsFromTheFrontAndRear, p. 84, "My Only Woodbine" (1 text, tune referenced)
Roud #24974
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "You Are My Sunshine" (tune)
File: Hopk084A

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