Hank Williams, Jr.
Family Tradition

Intro: Es

VERSE 1 

E                                        A
Country music singers have always been a real close family
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But lately some of my kinfolk have disowned a few others and me
  E                             A
I guess it's because I went and changed my direction
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Lord, I guess I went and broke their family tradition

Chorus

(They yell, they wanna know: "Hank..")
 E                  A
Why do you drink?   Why do you roll smoke?
 B7                       A              E
Why must you live out the songs that you wrote?
E                   A
Over and Over, everybody makes my predictions
      B7                                        A        E         
So if I get stoned, I'm just carryin' on an old   family tradition.

VERSE 2

    E                A
Now I am very proud  of my daddy's name
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Although his kind of music and mine ain't exactly the same
E                                       A
Stop and think it over - try to put yourself in my position
     B7                                              A        E
When I get stoned and sing all night long it's just a  family tradition

CHORUS 2
(Don't ask me: "Hank...")
E                   A
Why do you drink?  Why do you roll smoke?
B7                         A               E
Why must you live out them songs that you wrote?
E                                         A     
If I'm down in a honky tonk, and some ole slick's tryin' to gimme some
      
      Friction
        B7                                                      A
I says "Leave me alone, I'm stayin' all night long 'cause it's a  family 
	E
	tradition"


SOLO: VERSE PATTERN

       E                             A
Lordy, I have loved some ladies, and I still love Jim Beam
B7                            A                E
They both tried to kill me in nineteen seventy-three
E                              A   
When that doctor asks me "Son, how'dja get in this condition?"
        B7                                           A       E
I says "Hey Sawbones, I'm just a-carryin' on the old  family tradition."


CHORUS 3

(So don't ask me: "Hank...")
E                 A
Why do you drink? Why do you roll smoke?
B7                         A              E
Why must you live out them songs that you wrote?
E                                       A
Stop and think it over - try to put yourself in my unique position
     B7                                                A       E
When I get stoned and sing all night long, it's just a  family tradition.

FINIS