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Family Tradition

Mel O'Joe

by Hank Williams Jr.

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Country music singers have always been a r	eal close family

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But lately some of my kinfolk have disowned a few others and m	e

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I guess it's because I went and c	hanged my direction

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Lord, I guess I went and broke their family trad	ition

(They yell, they wanna know: "Hank..")

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W	hy do you drink? W	hy do you roll smoke?

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W	hy must you live out the songs that you w	rote?

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Over and over - every	body made my prediction

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So if	I get stoned, I'm just carryin' on and old family trad	ition.

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Now	I am very proud o	f my daddy's name

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Al	though his kind of music and mine ain't exactly the s	ame

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Stop and think it over - try to put your	self in this position

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If	I get stoned, and sing all night long, it's a family trad	ition.

(Don't ask me: "Hank...")

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W	hy do you drink? Hank, w	hy do you roll smoke?

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W	hy must you live out the songs that you w	rote?

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If I'm down in a Honky Tonk, some old sl	ick's tryin' to give me friction

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I say l	eave me alone, I'm singin' all night long, it's a Family tra	dition

Instrumental SOLO

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Lordy,	I have loved some ladies, and	I still love Jim Beam

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And	they both tried to kill me in nineteen seventy-	three

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When that doctor asks me "Son, h	ow'dja get in this condition?"

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I says "H	ey Sawbones, I'm just a-carryin' on the old family tra	dition."

(So don't ask me: "Hank...")

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W	hy do you drink? W	hy do you roll smoke?

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W	hy must you live out the songs that you w	rote?

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Stop and think it over - try to put your	self in this position

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When	I get stoned, I'm just carryin' on and old family trad	ition.