Family Tradition

E                                   A
Country music singers always been a real close family
    B7                                                  E
But lately some of my kinfolks have disowned a few others and me
                           A
And I guess it's because, I kinda changed my direction
B7                                          E
Lord, I guess I went and broke 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                                   E
Why must you live out the songs that you wrote?  (Get Laid)
                                    A
Stop and think it over, put yourself in my position
   B7                                                     E
If I get stoned, sing all night long, it's a Family Tradition.

 E                 A
Lord I am very proud, of my daddy's name
B7                                                   E
Although his kind of music, and mine ain't exactly the same
                                      A
If I'm down in a honky-tonk, and some ol slicks tryin' to gimme some
friction
B7                                                  E
Say leave me alone singin' all 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                                      E
Why must you live out the songs that you wrote?  (Get Laid)
                                        A
Stop and think it over, put yourself in my unique position
   B7                                                          E
If I get stoned and sing all night long, it's just a Family Tradition.

E                             A
I have loved some ladies, and I have love Jim Beam
    B7                                                   E
And they both tried to kill me, back in nineteen seventy-three
                                A
When that doctor asks me, "Son, how'd ya get in this condition?"
       B7                                                 E
I say "Hey Sawbone, I'm just carryin' on an old Family 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                                   E
Why must you live out the songs that you wrote?  (Get Laid)
                                      A
Stop and think it over, put yourself in my position
B7                                                              E
If I get stoned and sing all night long, it's just a Family Tradition.
B7                                                              E
If I get stoned and sing all night long, it's just a Family Tradition.