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5 6 6 6 6 5 4 4 4 4 4 -4 -4 -4 4 4 Country music singers have always been a real close family 4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 5 -4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 But lately some of my kinfolk have disowned a few others and me 5 6 6 6 6 5 5 5 -4 -4 -4 -4 4 I guess it's because I went and changed my position -5 -5 -5 -5 -5 5 -4 -3 5 5 5 -4 4 Lord, I guess I went and broke their fam'ly tradition C H O R U S 7 7 7 7 7 They wanna know: "Hank.. 7 7 6 5 -6 -6 -6 7 -6 Why do you drink? Why do you roll smoke? 6 6 6 -7 -7 6 6 6 -5 5 Why must you live out the songs that you wrote? 7 7 7 7 7 6 6 6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 7 -6 -5 Stop and think it over - try to put yourself in this position -7 -7 -7 -7 -7 -7 -7 -7-7 -7 When I get stoned,I'm just carryin'on 6 6 6 6 5 -4 4 an old fam'ly tradition. Verse 2 5 6 6 6 6 5 -4 4 4 4 4 Now I am very proud of my daddy's name -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 5 -4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 Although his kind of music and mine ain't exactly the same 7 7 7 7 7 6 6 6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 7 -6 -5 Stop and think it over - try to put yourself in my position -7 -7 -7 -7 -7 -7 -7 -7 -7 When I get stoned and sing all night long 6 6 6 6 6 5 -4 4 it's just a fam'ly tradition CHORUS 2 (Don't ask me: "Hank...") Why do you drink? Why do you roll smoke? Why must you live out them songs that you wrote? If I'm down in a honky tonk, and some ole slick's tryin' to gimme some friction I says "Leave me alone, I'm stayin' all night long 'cause it's a family tradition" verse 3 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 4 -4 -4 -4 4 4 Lordy, I have loved some ladies, and I still love Jim Beam -4 -4 -4 -4 5 -4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 They both tried to kill me in nineteen seventy-three 7 7 7 7 7 6 6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 7 -6 -5 When that doctor asks me "Son, how'dja get in this condition?" -7 -7 -7 -7 -7 -7 -7 -7 -7 -7-7 -7 I says "Hey Sawbones, I'm just a-carryin' on 6 6 6 6 5 -4 4 the old fam'ly tradition." CHORUS 3 (So don't ask me: "Hank...") Why do you drink? Why do you roll smoke? Why must you live out them songs that you wrote? Stop and think it over - try to put yourself in my unique position When I get stoned and sing all night long, it's just a family tradition.
