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# Title Principal Artiste Composers Lyricist / Date written Place Date recorded Matrix Label&cat.no. Additional Information
1161 While A Cigarette Was Burning Geraldo aho Charles & Nick Kenny w/m `38 Kingsway Hall, London December 3, 1938 OEA-6968-2 HMV BD-5437, HMV EA-2251 As above


While A Cigarette Was Burning
While A Cigarette Was Burning

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While A Cigarette Was Burning

(Charles & Nick Kenny)

Geraldo and his Orchestra



While A Cigarette Was Burning
My heart was burning too
The 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
Like lovers always do

From foolish dreams we woke
Our loves 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