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[Verse 1]\r\n[A] Country music singers have always been a [D] real close family, but [E7] lately some of my kinfolks have disowned a few others and [A] me.\r\nI guess it's because I kind of [D] changed my direction.  [E7] Lord, I guess I went and broke their family tra-[A]-dition.\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\nThey get on me and want to know<\/span> Hank [A] why do you drink?  Hank, [D] why do you roll smoke?\r\n[E7] Why must you live out the songs that you [A] wrote?\r\nOver and over every-[D]-body makes my predictions. So if [E7] I get stoned, I'm just carrying on an old family tra-[A]-dition.\r\n \r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[A] I am very proud [D] of my daddy's name - [E7] Although his kind of music and mine ain't exactly the [A] same.\r\nStop and think it over. Put your-[D]-self in my position.  If [E7] I get stoned and sing all night long it's a family tra-[A]-dition.\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS } \r\nSo don't ask me, Hank<\/span> [A] why do you drink? Hank, [D] why do you roll smoke?  [E7] Why must you live out the songs that you [A] wrote?\r\nIf I'm down in a honky-tonk some ole [D] slick's trying to give me friction.  I said [E7] leave me alone, I'm singing all night long, it's a family tra-[A]-dition.\r\n \r\n[Instrumental]\r\nA<\/span> D<\/span> E7   - - - -   <\/span>A<\/span> D<\/span> E7<\/span> A<\/span>\r\n \r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[A] Lordy, I have loved some ladies and [D] I have loved Jim Beam - And [E7] they both tried to kill me in [A] 1973.\r\nWhen that doctor asked me, Son [D] how did you get in this condition?  I said, [E7] hey sawbones, I'm just carrying on an ole family tra-[A]-dition.\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\nSo don't ask me, Hank<\/span> [A] why do you drink? Hank, [D] why do you roll smoke?  [E7] Why must you live out the songs that you [A] wrote?\r\nStop and think it over, try and put your-[D]-self in my unique position.\r\nIf [E7] I get stoned and sing all night long, it's a family tra-[A]-dition.\r\nYeah, [E7] I'll get stoned and sing all night long, cause it's a family tra-[A]-dition.<\/span><\/pre>\n
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[Verse 1] [A] Country music singers have always been a [D] real close family, but [E7] lately some of my kinfolks have disowned a few others and [A] me. I guess it’s because I kind of [D] changed my direction. [E7] Lord, I guess I went and broke their family … CLICK TO VIEW SONGFamily Tradition<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,117,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-tenor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27702"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29674,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27702\/revisions\/29674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}