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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| 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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| 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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