WHILE A CIGARETTE WAS BURNING
(Charles Kenny / Nick Kenny)


Buddy Rogers & His Famous Swing Band (vocal: Liz Tilton) - 1938
Paul Whiteman & His Orch. (vocal: Joan Edwards) - 1938
Jane Froman - 1938 (Radio Transcript)
Geraldo & His Orch. (vocal: Al Bowlly) - 1938
Carroll Gibbons & The Savoy Hotel Orpheans - 1938
Joe Loss & His Orch. (vocal: Chick Henderson) - 1938
Ambrose & His Orch. (vocal: Denny Dennis) - 1938
Jay Wilbur & His Orch. (vocal: Sam Costa) - 1938
Leslie "Hutch" Hutchinson - 1938
Carl Brisson - 1938
Patti Page - 1954


Romance is just like a cigarette
Burning so brightly it seems
But romance can die like a cigarette
Leaving ashes of wonderful dreams

While a cigarette was burning
My heart was burning too
A smoke ring for your finger
I fashioned in the blue

While a cigarette was burning
Our smoke dreams all came true
We tried to make them linger
As lovers always do

>From foolish dreams we woke
For love's a joke that goes up in smoke
Now, in each cigarette I see you yet
Somehow I shall never forget

While a cigarette was burning
We loved and laughed and learned
That hearts were made for breaking
While a cigarette burned



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - January 2016)