Family Tradition

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 get on me and want to know
 Hank, why do you drink?
 Hank, why do you roll smoke?
 Why must you live out the songs that you wrote?
 Over and over
 Everybody make my prediction
 So if I get stoned, I'm just carrying 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
 Hank, why do you drink?
 Hank, why do you roll smoke?
 Why must you live out the songs that you wrote?
 If I'm down in a honky-tonk
 And some ole slick's trying to give me friction
 I'll say leave me alone
 I'm singing all night long
 It's a family tradition
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 Lordy, I have loved some ladies
 And I have loved Jim Beam
 And they both tried to kill me in 1973
 When that doctor asked me
 "Son, how did you get in this condition?"
 I said, "Hey, Sawbones
 I'm just carrying on an ole family tradition"
 So don't ask me
 Hank, why do you drink?
 Hank, why do roll smoke?
 Why must you live out the songs that you wrote?
 Stop and think it over
 Try to put yourself in my unique position
 If I get stoned and sing all night long
 It's a family tradition