That's Why I Sing This Way

My mama used to tell me

Son you'd better get your work done

Your daddy's coming home at five

And if you ain't all through with the chores you've got to do

Boy I'm going to tell you a lie

I was glued to the radio

Listening to my hero

Singing them sad old songs

Singing them sadder than a worn car funeral

Nobody sings like George

I take that old kitchen broom up to my room

And I play it like an old guitar

Or sit out on the porch trying to sing like George

Dreaming of becoming a star

But things I never did when I was just a kid

Made me what I am today

You see mama used to work me with a George Jones album

That's why I sing this way

So I ended up in Nashville

Working at a sawmill

Just to be closer to the stars

I got a little broke

But I couldn't ask my folks

So I had to hock my old guitar

I still hang around Tootsie's working lounge

Thinking he'll walk through that door

But a voice in my mind says you're wasting your time

Because George don't drink no more

I used to take that old broom up to my room

And I'd play it like an old guitar

Or sit out on the porch trying to sing like George

Dreaming of becoming a star

But things I never did when I was just a kid

Made me what I am today

You see mama used to work me with a George Jones album

That's why I sing this way

Well things I never did when I was just a kid

Made me what I am today

You see mama used to work me with a George Jones album

That's why I sing this way

Mama used to work me with a George Jones album

That's why I sing this way