Lyrics
Friends, there's somethin' been hauntin' me
And I just got to tell you 'bout it
I saw an accident one day that would chill the heart of any man
And teach them not to drink a drop
While the steering wheel's in their hand
This awful accident occurred on the twentieth day of May
And caused two dear little children to be sleeping beneath the clay
These two little kids walked side by side along the state highway
Their poor old mother, she had died and their daddy had run away
As these two little kids walked arm
In arm, how sad their hearts did feel
When around the curve came a speeding
Car with a drunk man at the wheel
The drunk man saw the two little kids and he hollered a drunkard sound
"Get out of the road, you little fools!
" And the car, it brought them down
The bumper struck the little girl, taking her life away
While the little boy, in a puddle of
Blood, in the ditch lying there did lay
The drunk man staggered from his car
To see the damage that he had done
And he let out a yell you could hear for
Miles when he recognized his dying son
Such mourning from a drunken man I've never heard before
While kneeling at the running board, he prayed to heaven's door
Saying, "Oh God, please forgive me for this awful crime I've done"
And his attention then was called away by the words of his dying son
And he said, "Daddy, why did you do this
To us? How come you run us to the ground?
It was you and mommy we was talking '
Bout when the car, it brought us down
And I was just telling little sister
That I knew we'd see you again someday
But Daddy, why did it have to be like
This? Why did it have to be this way?
Why, Daddy, why?"