Songs for swinging smokers
Thursday, April 19, 2007 
Further to the previous item, Forest has also joined forces with Boisdale to produce a CD featuring no fewer than 20 smoking-related songs. Entitled You Can’t Do That!, the CD includes classics such as Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, and Giving Up Giving Up. It also features a new song, I'm Going Outside, with lyrics by acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Alan Plater. All songs are performed by the Boisdale Blue Rhythm Band who played at our 'Politics and Prohibition' party at last year's Conservative party conference.
The CD will be released ahead of the public smoking ban on July 1st and will be distributed to journalists, broadcasters and politicians to promote both the dinner and our message that the ban is unnecessarily severe and that opposition to the ban remains both vocal and visible. It will also be used to generate support for Forest and The Free Society among musicians, artists and patrons of Boisdale. Friends of Forest will receive a copy; so too will every guest at the Savoy (see below).
Reader Comments (2)
In case I've not already mentioned it, another pro-smoking song is the rallying anthem, The Jackboot, by Eamonn Mallon
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I hear the jackboot is coming down that road again,
I hear the jackboot is coming down that road again,
To take away my liberty, ‘cause they know what’s good for me,
And tread on the names of those that fought the jackboot.
http://www.eamonnmallon.co.uk/main.htm
(free download)
I too have heard "Jackboot" which is a really powerful anthem.
I am told that it has been downloaded thousands of times areound the world.
Apparently it's due for official release shortly in the UK so when it gets into the download charts it would be fantastic for the cause and public awareness