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Family Tradition Tab by Hank Williams, Jr.

  • E6

  • A7

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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Country music singers
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Have always been a real close family
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But lately some of my kinfolks
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Have disowned a few others and me
I guess it's because
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I kinda changed my direction
B7
Lord, I guess I went
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and broke their family tradition
They get on me and want to know, Hank

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Chorus 1
E6
Why do you drink?
A7
Hank, why do you roll smoke?
B7
Why must you live out
E6
the songs that you wrote?
Over and over
A7
Everybody makes my prediction
B7
So if I get stoned, I'm just carrying on
E6
An old family tradition
Verse 2
E6
I am very proud
A7
Of my daddy's name
B7
Although his kind of music
And mine ain't exactly the same
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Stop and think it o
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ver Put your
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A7
self in my po
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sition If
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B7
I get stoned and sing all night long
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It's a
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family tra
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dition
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So don't ask me, Hank
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Chorus 2
E6
Why do you drink?
E6
Hank,
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A7
why do you roll
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A7
smoke?
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B7
Why must you live
B7
out the songs
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that you wrote?
E6
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If I'm down in a
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honky-tonk And some ole
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A7
slick's trying to give me
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friction I'll say
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B7
leave me alone I'm singing all
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B7
night long It's a
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family tra
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dition
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Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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Lordy, I have loved some ladies
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And I have loved Jim Beam
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And they both tried to kill me in 1973
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When that doctor asked me
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"Son, how did you get in this con
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dition?" I said
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"Hey, Sawbones I'm just carrying on
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an old family tra
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dition"
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So don't ask me, Hank
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Chorus 3
E6
Why do you drink?
A7
Hank, why do you roll smoke?
B7
Why must you live out
E6
the songs that you wrote?
Stop and think it over
A7
Try to put yourself in my unique position
B7
If I get stoned and sing all night long
It's a family tra
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dition
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