“Don’t Let Smokey Mountain Smoke Get in Your Eyes” was written by Cecil Null, a country songwriter, and recorded by the Osborne Brothers, who released it as a single in the mid-1970s.
The song plays on a familiar phrase — smoke getting in your eyes — and turns it into an affectionate piece of mountain boosterism: a warning, half-joking, that one breath of the haze over the Great Smoky Mountains will leave a visitor unwilling to leave. It is light, good-humored material of the kind the Osborne Brothers, with their smooth, radio-ready harmony, handled with ease.
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