details for Put Down Yr Cigarette Rag - Allen Ginsberg

Assumed/incorrect titles:
• Put Down Yer Cigarette Rag
• Put Down Your Cigarette Rag
• Put Down Your Cigarette Rag (Don't Smoke)
• Put Down Ya Cigarette Rag
• The Put-Down-Your-Cigarette Rag

Written by:
• Allen Ginsberg

Recorded:
• 1970s

Recording location:
• Chelsea Hotel, New York, NY

Released:
• 1982

Available on (*):
• 1982 LP First Blues (John Hammond)
• 2002 CD New York Blues: Rags, Ballads And Harmonium Songs (Locust, August 27, 2002)

Topics (not including words that are part of the title):
• cigarette smoking
• politics

interesting facts (click to see playlist of show on which fact was mentioned, if applicable):
• recorded by Harry Smith

general information about Allen Ginsberg

Common misspellings:
• Allan Ginsberg
• Alan Ginsberg
• Alen Gisberg
• Allen Ginsburg

Real name:
• Irwin Allen Ginsberg

Born:
• June 3, 1926

Died:
• April 5, 1997

Web sites:
• http://www.allenginsberg.org/

interesting facts (click to see playlist of show on which fact was mentioned, if applicable):
• best known as a poet
• was friends with Jack Kerouac

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