Single / Track
Family Tradition
Lyrics
Country music singers have always been a real close family
But lately some of my kinfolks have disowned a few others and me
I guess it's because I kinda changed my direction
Lord, I guess I went and broke their family tradition
They wanna know
Hank, why do you drink?
Hey, why do you roll smoke?
Why must you live out the songs that you wrote?
Over and over, everybody makes my prediction
So if I get stoned I'm just carryin' on
An old family tradition
I am very proud of my daddy's name
Although his kind of music and mine ain't exactly the same
Stop and think it over, put yourself in my position
If I get stoned and sing all night long
It's a family tradition
So don't ask me
Why do you drink?
Why do you roll smoke?
Why must you live out the songs that you wrote?
And if I'm down in a honky tonk and some old slicks trying
To give my friction
I said, leave me alone I'm singin' all night long
It's a family tradition
Ah, yeah
Yeah, oh
Yeah
Hey, oh
Woo, oh, whoa
Lordy, I have loved some ladies and I've loved Jim Beam
They both tried to kill me in 1973
When that doctor asked me
"Son, how'd you get in this condition?"
I said "Hey sawbones, I'm just carryin' on
An old family tradition"
Whoa
So don't ask me
Why do you drink? (Why do you drink?)
Hey, why do you roll smoke? (Why do you roll smoke?)
Why must you live out the songs that you wrote?
Stop and think it over, try and put yourself in my unique position
If I get stoned and sing all night long
It's a family tradition
One more time, yeah
If I get stoned and sing all night long
It's a family tradition
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