Chords for Ferlin Husky - The Drunken Driver (1954)
Tempo:
123.7 bpm
Chords used:
A
E
B
Em
Bm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[E]
[A]
Friends, there's something been haunting [E] me, and I just got to tell you about it.
I saw an accident one [A] day that would chill the heart of any man and teach them not to
drink a drop [B] while the steering wheel's in their hand.
[Bm] This awful accident occurred on the 20th day of [A] May and caused two dear little children
to be [E] sleeping beneath the clay.
[B] These two little kids walked side [E] by side along the state [A] highway.
Their poor old mother, she had died, and their daddy had [E] run away.
As these two little kids walked arm in arm, [B] how sad [E] their hearts did feel, [B] when around
the curve [A] came a speeding car with a drunk [E] man at the wheel.
The drunk man saw the two little kids, and he hollered [A] a drunkard's sound,
[Em] Get out of the road, you little [A] fools!
And [E] the car, it [B] brought them down.
The bumper struck the little girl, [Abm] taking her [B] life away, while the little [A] boy, in a
puddle of blood in the ditch line [E] there did lay.
[A] The drunk man staggered from his car to [E] see the damage that he had done, and he let out
a yell you could hear for miles when he [C] recognized his [A] dying son.
Such [Em] mourning from a drunken man I've never [B] heard before.
While nailing at the running board, he prayed [A] to heaven's door, saying, Oh God, please forgive
me for this awful crime I've done.
[E] And his attention then was called away by the words of his dying son.
And he said, [A] Daddy, why [E] did you do this to [A] us?
How come you run us to the ground?
It [Eb] was you and Mommy we was talking [E] about when the car it brought us down.
And I was just telling little [A] sister that I knew we'd see you again someday.
But Daddy, why did it have to be like this?
Why did it have to be this way?
Why Daddy, why?
[A]
Friends, there's something been haunting [E] me, and I just got to tell you about it.
I saw an accident one [A] day that would chill the heart of any man and teach them not to
drink a drop [B] while the steering wheel's in their hand.
[Bm] This awful accident occurred on the 20th day of [A] May and caused two dear little children
to be [E] sleeping beneath the clay.
[B] These two little kids walked side [E] by side along the state [A] highway.
Their poor old mother, she had died, and their daddy had [E] run away.
As these two little kids walked arm in arm, [B] how sad [E] their hearts did feel, [B] when around
the curve [A] came a speeding car with a drunk [E] man at the wheel.
The drunk man saw the two little kids, and he hollered [A] a drunkard's sound,
[Em] Get out of the road, you little [A] fools!
And [E] the car, it [B] brought them down.
The bumper struck the little girl, [Abm] taking her [B] life away, while the little [A] boy, in a
puddle of blood in the ditch line [E] there did lay.
[A] The drunk man staggered from his car to [E] see the damage that he had done, and he let out
a yell you could hear for miles when he [C] recognized his [A] dying son.
Such [Em] mourning from a drunken man I've never [B] heard before.
While nailing at the running board, he prayed [A] to heaven's door, saying, Oh God, please forgive
me for this awful crime I've done.
[E] And his attention then was called away by the words of his dying son.
And he said, [A] Daddy, why [E] did you do this to [A] us?
How come you run us to the ground?
It [Eb] was you and Mommy we was talking [E] about when the car it brought us down.
And I was just telling little [A] sister that I knew we'd see you again someday.
But Daddy, why did it have to be like this?
Why did it have to be this way?
Why Daddy, why?
Key:
A
E
B
Em
Bm
A
E
B
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
Friends, there's something been haunting [E] me, and I just got to tell you about it.
_ I saw an accident one [A] day that would chill the heart of any man _ and teach them not to
drink a drop [B] while the steering wheel's in their hand.
_ [Bm] This awful accident occurred on the 20th day of [A] May _ and caused two dear little children
to be [E] sleeping beneath the clay.
_ _ [B] These two little kids walked side [E] by side along the state [A] highway.
_ Their poor old mother, she had died, and their daddy had [E] run away.
_ As these two little kids walked arm in arm, [B] how sad [E] their hearts did feel, [B] when around
the curve [A] came a speeding car with a drunk [E] man at the wheel.
The drunk man saw the two little kids, and he hollered [A] a drunkard's sound,
[Em] Get out of the road, you little [A] fools!
And [E] the car, it [B] brought them down.
The bumper struck the little girl, [Abm] taking her [B] life away, _ while the little [A] boy, in a
puddle of blood in the ditch line [E] there did lay.
[A] The drunk man staggered from his car to [E] see the damage that he had done, and he let out
a yell you could hear for miles when he [C] recognized his [A] dying son.
Such [Em] mourning from a drunken man I've never [B] heard before.
While nailing at the running board, he prayed [A] to heaven's door, saying, Oh God, please forgive
me for this awful crime I've done.
[E] And his attention then was called away by the words of his dying son.
And he said, [A] Daddy, why [E] did you do this to [A] us?
How come you run us to the ground?
It [Eb] was you and Mommy we was talking [E] about when the car it brought us down.
And I was just telling little [A] sister that I knew we'd see you again someday.
But Daddy, why did it have to be like this?
Why did it have to be this way?
Why Daddy, why? _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
Friends, there's something been haunting [E] me, and I just got to tell you about it.
_ I saw an accident one [A] day that would chill the heart of any man _ and teach them not to
drink a drop [B] while the steering wheel's in their hand.
_ [Bm] This awful accident occurred on the 20th day of [A] May _ and caused two dear little children
to be [E] sleeping beneath the clay.
_ _ [B] These two little kids walked side [E] by side along the state [A] highway.
_ Their poor old mother, she had died, and their daddy had [E] run away.
_ As these two little kids walked arm in arm, [B] how sad [E] their hearts did feel, [B] when around
the curve [A] came a speeding car with a drunk [E] man at the wheel.
The drunk man saw the two little kids, and he hollered [A] a drunkard's sound,
[Em] Get out of the road, you little [A] fools!
And [E] the car, it [B] brought them down.
The bumper struck the little girl, [Abm] taking her [B] life away, _ while the little [A] boy, in a
puddle of blood in the ditch line [E] there did lay.
[A] The drunk man staggered from his car to [E] see the damage that he had done, and he let out
a yell you could hear for miles when he [C] recognized his [A] dying son.
Such [Em] mourning from a drunken man I've never [B] heard before.
While nailing at the running board, he prayed [A] to heaven's door, saying, Oh God, please forgive
me for this awful crime I've done.
[E] And his attention then was called away by the words of his dying son.
And he said, [A] Daddy, why [E] did you do this to [A] us?
How come you run us to the ground?
It [Eb] was you and Mommy we was talking [E] about when the car it brought us down.
And I was just telling little [A] sister that I knew we'd see you again someday.
But Daddy, why did it have to be like this?
Why did it have to be this way?
Why Daddy, why? _ _ _ _ _
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