The Drunken Driver chords by The Stanley Brothers

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Verse 1
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Now listen you
drunken drivers
While here on earth you wail
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You'll never know when
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the time will come
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You'll have to say farewell
I saw an accident one day
Shoot you on the heart of a man
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And teach him never to drink a drop
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While he's steering wheels in his hand
This awful accident occurred
On the twentieth day of May
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Cause two lovin' children
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Is sleepin' each to claim
These two dear kids walk side by side
Up on the state highway
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Their loving mother, she had died,
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their father had run away
They were talking of their loving parents
How sad their heart did feel
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When around the curve came
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a speedy car
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With a drunk man at the wheel
The driver saw these two dear kids
And who did a drunkard sound
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Get down the road, you little fools,
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in the car that brought them
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down
The driver staggered from his car
to see what he'd done
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His heart sank within him
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when he saw his dying son
He then picked up his little ones
and carried them to his car
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And kneeling on the runnin' board
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he prayed a drunkard's prayer
Sayin' please, oh Lord, forgive me
for this awful crime I've done
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His attention then was called away
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to the words of his dying son
Sayin' take us to our mother, dad
She sleeps beneath the ground
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It was you and her we were
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talkin' about
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When the car, it knocked us down
And please, dear dad,
don't drink no more
While drivin' on your way
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But meet us with our mother, dad
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And in heaven some sweet name