ELEGY TO A CAMEL

      "Pore Joe Is Daid"
      [sung to the tune of "Pore Jud is Dead"]
       

      Pore Joe is dead,
      Pore Joe Camel's dead...
      His trademark jacket's hangin' over there (over there!)
      I thought he look'd real young
      But I never check'd his lungs:
      It turns out Joe wurn't gettin' any air!

      Pore Joe is dead,
      A matchstick lights his head...
      Folk said that children sucked his other end (other end!)
      Because he was a 'toon
      Congress stomped him out too soon --
      And RJR has lost its coolest friend!

      Eight years, man. Joey, we hardly knew ye.

      You want more on the smokers' defeat? What's to be done with those now-unusable restaurant smoking sections? Look HERE for my less-than-modest proposal.


      thank you SS/AM ... I read your little song, and now I've got the soundtrack to "Oklahoma!" running through my head. Before I scream, please take me HOME!! And while I'm waiting for the Nicoderm(tm) patch to kick in, let me MAIL you a few choice words!!

        Today, these people did not die from a smoking-related illness.