Family Tradition

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Country music singers always been 
  A
a real close family
    B7                             
But lately some of my kinfolks have
                     E
 disowned a few others and me
                           A
And I guess it's because, I kinda 
changed my direction
B7                                
Lord, I guess I went and broke 
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their Family Tradition


So they wanna know Hank
E            F G/F# G
Why do you drink? (Get Drunk)
A
Why do you roll smoke? (Get Stoned)
B7                                
Why must you live out the songs 
   E
that you wrote?  (Get Laid)
Stop and think it over, put yourself
A
 in my position
   B7                          
If I get stoned, sing all night 
                           E
long, it's a Family Tradition.

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Lord I am very proud, of my daddy's 
name
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B7                                
Although his kind of music, and 
                   E
mine ain't exactly the same
If I'm down in a honky-tonk, and 
     A
some ol slicks tryin' to gimme some
friction
B7                                
Say leave me alone singin' all 
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night long it's a Family Tradition

Chorus2:
Still they all wanna know Hank
E            F G/F# G
Why do you drink? (Get Drunk)
A
Why do you roll smoke? (Get Stoned)
B7                                
Why must you live out the songs 
      E
that you wrote?  (Get Laid)
Stop and think it over, put yourself
    A
 in my unique position
   B7                              
If I get stoned and sing all night 
                            E
long, it's just a Family Tradition.

E                             A
I have loved some ladies, and I have
 love Jim Beam
    B7                             
And they both tried to kill me, 
                      E
back in nineteen seventy-three
When that doctor asks me, "Son, 
A
how'd ya get in this condition?"
       B7                   
I say "Hey Sawbone, I'm just 
carryin' on an old Family 
    E
Tradition."

Chorus:3
So they wanna know Hank
E        F G/F# G
Why do you drink? (Get Drunk)
A
Why do you roll smoke? (Get Stoned)
B7                                
Why must you live out the songs 
   E
that you wrote?  (Get Laid)
Stop and think it over, put yourself
  A
 in my position
B7                                
If I get stoned and sing all night
                              E
 long, it's just a Family Tradition.
B7                                
If I get stoned and sing all night
                              E
 long, it's just a Family Tradition.