Cigarette State

      E                              A
Well, just beyond Virginias southern border
     E                            B
Is a land that I am happy to call mine
    E                                    A
And I was raised in a house of brick and mortar
       B                             E
In the red clay hills of central Caroline
        E                                 A
Now the corn crop there is hardly worth a mention
        E                                 B
And the cattle farms are fine but not the best
         E                                A
Its this little leaf we borrowed from the indians
     B                                 E
That keeps our state a notch above the rest

[CHORUS]
    A                         E
The Georgia peach is fair, Kentucky beyond compare
A                   B
Alabamas grand, The state not the band
        E                               A
Now the south she has her diamonds, And every one is great
    E                   B         E
But North Carolina is a cigarette state.

[VERSE II]
        E                                  A
Now the folks in our hometown sure had the habit
     E                                         B
They smoked the best home grown the whole year round
     E                                    A
They knew what a good time was and how to have it
        B                    E
Because that was a cigarette town
    E                                       A
Our neighbour Frank was no high bred man of letters
    E                                B
But he made an honest living off the land
       E                             A
And he put away three packs a day or better
        B                  E
Because he was a cigarette man

[CHORUS]
    A                         E
The Georgia peach is fair, Kentucky beyond compare
A                   B
Alabamas grand, The state not the band
        E                               A
Now the south she has her diamonds, And every one is great
    B                   B         E
But North Carolina is a cigarette state.

[CHORUS G  O]
A  E  A  B  E  A  B  E

[VERSE III]
  E                                A
I took up with a pretty thing from Nashville
      E                         B
Loved her more than even I told her so
    E                                    A
She took it between her fingers nice and natural
    B                              E
And sucked it to the filter like a pro
     E                                 A
So I gave her a ring and from her pa I swiped her
    E                               B
She gave me a boy I'm happy to call mine
E                                   A
Chain smokes cools and I go out for diapers
     B                              E
In a red brick house in central Caroline

[CHORUS]
    A                         E
The Georgia peach is fair, Kentucky beyond compare
A                   B
Alabamas grand, The state not the band
        E                               A
Now the south she has her diamonds, And every one is great
    B                   B         E
But North Carolina is a cigarette state.

[OUTRO]
    E                   B         E
And North Carolina is a cigarette state