Key: Gb major
Verse 1
I'd like to tell you about a man
that let alcohol destroy everything that God
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gave him.
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I saw an accident one day
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while the steering wheel's
in their hand.
occurred on the 20th day of May
and caused two little children
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to be sleeping beneath the clay.
These two little kids
along the state highway.
their poor old mother she had died
as these two little children
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how sad their hearts did feel
came a speeding car
with a drunk man at the wheel
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the drunk man saw the little kids
and he hollered a drunkard sound
and the car it brought them down.
taking her life away
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in the ditch line there did lay.
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to see the damage that he had done
and then he let out a yell
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when he recognized his dying son.
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Such mourning from a
drunken man
I've never heard before.
While kneeling down by his car,
saying, Oh God, please forgive me
And his attention then was called away
why did you do this to us?
How come you run us to the ground?
It was you and mommy we
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when the quarry brought us down
that I knew we'd see you again someday but
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daddy why did it have to be like this?
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Why did it have to be this way?
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Why, Daddy? Why?
Outro 1
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