Seasons of the Ukulele

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SOTU 731 - SMOKE, SMOKE, SMOKE THAT CIGARETTE!

joo

Thanks for hosting, Jim!

Congrats on quitting smoking 50 years ago!

Here is a smoking song by Barry Louis Polisar. Lyrics in the YouTube description.

YorkSteve

Thanks for hosting Jim! And thanks for choosing a theme with so many to pick from. I was going to do the same Tom Waits song as you, but then changed tack and gave this Nick Lowe one a go - "smoking I once quit, now I've got one lit…"

dr_mitch

Time for a classic jazz song, If You're a Viper, otherwise known as the Reefer Song.

Relevant slang: Mezz = Mexican marijuana, viper = marijuana smoker

bobjking

Yo!

Sorry to interrupt everyone's smoke break…

Prize announcement over at 730!

CanadaJim

Well, so far we have had 8 songs about cigarettes, 2 about cigars, 1 each about pipes, hookahs and marijuana.
There have also been 2 songs about smoke that have no inhaling involved.
I believe all of these have been entered into the playlist.
Keep 'em comin'!

Threebird

Thanks for hosting, and for picking a theme that got me to finally try to get an attempt at this song started! 'Messy' by Lola Young recently won a Grammy for Best Pop Solo Performance, here is my approximation of it (Lyrics in the YT description). It includes 'smoke like a chimney', 'smoke weed', and for good measure I also put myself in the appropriate state of mind right before hitting record!

potmo

Ganja Hashup

So it is almost cheating to do reggae songs about pot. It is probably harder to find reggae songs that don't have some ganja reference or another. So I figured I would mash a few together!

Stats:

5 songs
3 chords
Not counting "it", which repeatedly appears unambiguously referring to the sacred plant, there are 13 unique qualifying terms (maybe I missed some?)

References to cannabis

Tamjee
"The Weed"
Marijuana
Ganja
(the international) Herb
Kaya
Spliff – marijuanna cigarette

State of Being under the influence of the legendary hemp flower

Irie
"...I feel so high..."

One who partakes

Smoker
Toker

Act of partaking

"... took a hit"
"... take a draw

potmo

One Toke Over the Line

I can't believe what an awesome topic this is, at least for me. A lot of times there are plenty of songs of a certain topic, but for me it is great because it isn't just plenty of songs it is that it comprises a whole bunch of songs that I really love and for the most part have had on my "to learn" list so I am really enjoying this. Jim, just say the word and I will stop! I don't want to torture you too much, so I am allowing for an ammended rule limiting number of posts.

CanadaJim

Three more marijuana videos. Keep 'em coming.

potmo, I already have an 8 song limit, but you haven't come close yet. By the way, a medley counts as one song since they're all crammed into the same video.

Barbablanca

Here is my offer this week. An original written this week!

It's about a woman who is madly in love with her man, but he is only faking it in return.
One of the reasons he is thinking of leaving her is that she "still smokes on the sly" and he's allergic to tobacco. So I hope this mention of "smoking" qualifies the song for this week's SOTU.

I did use AI for the visuals on this. I was curious as to what the AI would offer in response to the lyrics.
I was pretty knocked out by what was given me.

For more details of my experience withe the AI see the description section of the song on on YouTube

Nearsighted-Lemon-McKay

Here is another cigarette song… The Beatles' "I'm So Tired"

DelGriff

Thanks for hosting, Jim! :-)

This is a song originally by ABBA, but which I grew to know and love from the cover of it that ‘80s synth pop duo Blancmange recorded. It describes the mundane routine of single life, but with the implied imminent prospect of love, and all the excitement that brings, for the narrator.

“I must have lit my seventh cigarette at half past two

And at the time I never even noticed I was blue…”

Baritone uke with some synth additions, homemade drum track and vocal harmonies.

The Day Before You Came - ABBA / Blancmange cover (SOTU 731)

AlanDP

"Cigarette" by the Smithereens from 1986 with some melodica substituting for the accordion.

potmo

America Simon & Garfunkel

Paul buys a pack at the beginning and by the end of the song they are out of cigarettes. I wonder how bizarre it seems to people who are in their forties or younger to imagine people smoking on a bus. Looking back it seems so crazy that people smoked on elevators and restaurants and busses and planes. They would have non smoking sections on planes and busses but of course that was completely laughable. Of couse maybe things are different outside the US.

potmo

UkeCan1 I dont know if I used the right term, but let's say something happened a hundred times. when you say something like "one or two" as the reverse of saying a million. My brain doesnt work so well.

hands_on_lanzon

thanks for hosting, Jim! fun theme and some great entries to show for it. congrats of 50yrs of not smoking! i don't do cigarettes, cigars on occasion, and well… this one has also slowed down a bit too… but the songs still get me.

here's Ben Harper's Burn One Down

potmo

CanadaJim Sorry I missed that. I don't think I could ever actually do 8 songs in a season. I do have 5 more I want to do now that "I'm so Tired" and "King of the Road" have been done. I'm going to try though.

uke4ia

I looked at this page while my video was compiling, and found that Alan had already done this song a few hours earlier. This is another version of "Cigarette" by The Smithereens.

CanadaJim

We now have 25 super contributions.
- 14 songs about cigarettes
- 5 about cannibis
- 2 about cigars
- 2 about smoke that is not purposly inhaled
- 1 about pipes
- 1 about hookahs
Keep 'em comin'!

Joko

I think the bass player was high for this one. It's Willie Nelson's Roll Me And Smoke Me

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