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First Line: Of all de dings dat mordal man
Last Line: Fumans expirarem.
Alternate Author Name(s): Breitmann, Hans
Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


Of all de dings dat mordal man,
Ish fabrikate for gelt,
Of all de goots dat sailen ships
Ish carry troo de welt,

Peneat de Frantsche tri-colour,
De English Union Shack,
Or Vankeelandish stripes und stars,
De pest ish good Taback.

Vhen heavenly smoke is roung mein nose,
I veels all Gott-resigned:
Mit good cigars in lofely rows,
No care ish on my mind.
Id drills mein heart to finger dem
Vhatefer pe deir brand—
Vhere'er I finds some smoke-work—dere
Ish Piper's Vaterland.

Vot sort of vellers can dey be,
I dinks dir hets ish crack!
Who shbeaks me of de pad cigars
Und good for nix Taback?
Dere's some Taback more betterer
As oder can pe found,
Boot pad Taback I nefer saw
On all Gott's garten ground.

Vot say der crate Winstruphius
Der Danish bard sooblime:
Dat "Bacchus and Tobaccus oft
Trown oud, dry oop, your time."
If rolling vapour ofer het,
De face of heafen shrouds,
Vhy shouldt not mordal life trife on,
In wild Tobacco clouds?

Ich lieb' den Wein, ich lieb' das Bier:
Das ist ganz wohl bekannt.
I trinks mein liddle Branntewein,
Vhen mornings oop I stand;
Boot Wein I'd lose and Bier resign,
Ja—Branntewein I'd lack,
Ere in dis world I'd smokeless go,
Mitout mein rauch Taback.

So tyrannus jubeat
"Vinum dato!"—darem.
"Non amato virginem!"
Hegre non amarem,
"Meerschaum da, seu morere!"
Pertinax negarem,
"Frange meerschaum—abjice!"
Fumans expirarem.





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