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Tobacco's But A Wasting Weed

Looking for more reasons to quit smoking? This anonymous song, published in 1607, uses the plant, pipe, smoke, and ash as religious metaphors of human frailty. We found it in the Burl Ives Songbook, and serve it up Baroque style. (Famed folksinger Ives was himself a long-time smoker of pipes and cigars, who died of the complications of oral cancer.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burl_Ives Tobacco's but a wasting weed Grows green at morn, cut down at eve It doth decay; we are but clay Think on this when you smoke tobacco! The pipe that is so foul within Shows how the soul is stained with sin It doth require God's purging fire Think on this when you smoke tobacco! The smoke that doth so high ascend Shows that our life must have an end The vapor's gone; man's life is done Think on this when you smoke tobacco! The ashes that are left behind Should serve to keep us all in mind That unto dust, return we must Think on this when you smoke tobacco!