Chords for Family Tradition

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_ [E] Country music singers have always [A] been a real close family, _ _ _ [B] but lately some of my kinfolks
have disowned a [Gbm] few others than [E] me. _ _
I guess it's because I kind [A] of changed my direction. _
_ [B] Lord, I guess I went and broke their [Eb] family _ [E] tradition. _
_ Get on me and want to know, Hank, why do you drink?
_ [A] Hank, why do you roll smoke?
_ _ [B] Why must you live out the songs that [E] you wrote? _ _ _ _
Over and over, _ [A] everybody made my prediction.
_ [B] So if I get stoned, I'm just carrying on an old family [E] tradition. _ _ _ _ _
_ I am very proud _
_ [A] of my daddy's name.
_ _ [B] Although his kind of music and mine ain't exactly [E] the same. _
_ Stop and think it over. _
[A] Put yourself in [E] my position. _
[B] If I get stoned and sing all night long, it's a family [A] _ [E] tradition.
_ So don't ask me, Hank, why do you drink?
_ [A] Hank, why do you roll smoke?
_ _ [B] _ Why must you _ live out the songs that you [E] wrote?
_ _ If I'm down in a honky-tonk, [A] some old slick's trying to give me direction,
_ [B] I say, leave me alone, I'm singing all night long, it's a family [Em] _ tradition.
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_ _ _ _ Lordy, I have loved some ladies, _ [A] and I have loved him big,
_ [B] and they both tried to kill me _ in _ 1973.
[E] _ _ _ _ When that doctor asked me, [A] son, how'd you get in this condition?
I [B] said, I hate soft bones, I'm just carrying on an old [Eb] family _ [E] tradition.
_ _ So don't ask me, Hank, why do you drink? _ _
[A] Hank, why do you roll smoke? _
_ [B] Why must you _ live out the songs that [E] you wrote? _
_ Stop and think it over.
Try to put [A] yourself in my unique position. _
[B] If I get stoned and sing all night long, it's a family _ [E] tradition. _
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