Artist: | Hank Williams Jr. (English) |
User: | xkat42 |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: | - |
Family Tradition –
Hank Williams Jr.
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Country music singers have always been a real close family
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But lately some of my kinfolk have disowned a few others and me
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I guess it's because I kinda changed my direction
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Lord,I guess I went and broke their family tradition
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They get on me, wanna know: "Hank.."
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Why do you drink? Hank, Why do you roll smoke?
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Why must you live out the songs that you wrote?
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Over and over - everybody made my prediction
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so if I get stoned, I'm just carryin' on and old family tradition.
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I am very proud of my daddy's name
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Although his kind of music and mine ain't exactly the same
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Stop and think it over - put yourself in my position
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If I get stoned and sing all night long it's a family tradition
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CHORUS 2
Don't ask me: "Hank..."
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Why do you drink? Hank, Why do you roll smoke?
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Why must you live out the songs that you wrote?
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If I'm down in a honky tonk, some ol slick's tryin' to gimme friction
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I says "Leave me alone, I'm singin'all night long it's a family tradition"
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Lordy, I have loved some ladies, and I have loved Jim Bean
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They both tried to kill me in nineteen seventy-three
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When that doctor asked me "Son, how'dja get in this condition?"
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I says "Hey Sawbones, I'm just a-carryin' on the old family tradition."
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CHORUS 3
So don't ask me: "Hank..."
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Why do you drink? Hank, Why do you roll smoke?
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Why must you live out the songs that you wrote?
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Stop and think it over - try to put yourself in my unique position
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If I get stoned and sing all night long, it's a family tradition.