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Analysis Of The Song Tobaccos But An Indian Weed

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The song “Tobaccos but an Indian Weed” is about the Puritans views on Tobacco. We already know that tobacco turns into a booming cash crop that saved colonies from extinction, however in this song they are frowning upon smoking it and calling it “sinful”. How long after this song is written do they discover that tobacco might actually be beneficial to them? The line of the song used over and over is “Think on this when you smoke tobacco”, this to me sounds as though they are trying to convince someone to contemplate wisely about what they are doing, but essentially trying to persuade them not to do it. This song shows a lot about their morals too. The puritans consider it so foul that the “soul is stained with sin”.
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