Chords for Hank Williams Jr. - Family Tradition - 1982

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_ _ _ _ _ Now these country music singers have always [A] been a real close-knit family.
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Lately some of my old kinfolk _ disowned some of the [E] boys and me.
_ _ I guess it's because I [A] kinda changed my direction.
_ _ [B] Lord, I guess I went and broke their family _ [E] tradition.
_ _ You know, I'm a one-oh.
Hank, why do you drink?
_ [A] Hank, why do you roll smoke?
_ _ [B] _ _ Must you live out the songs that [E] you wrote?
_ Whoa! _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] Everybody made my prediction.
So [B] if I get stoned and sing all night long, it's a family _ [E] tradition.
I'm _ _ _ _ _ _ very proud _ [A] of my daddy's name.
_ _ [B] Although his kind of blues, _ my blues ain't played [E] just the same.
_ Stop and think it over.
Put [A] yourself in my unique position.
_ [B] If I get stoned and sing all night long, it's a family [E] tradition.
Hank, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ why do you drink? _ _
[A] Hank, why do you roll smoke? _
_ [B] _ _ Must you live out the _ songs that [E] you wrote? _
_ If I'm down in a honky-tonk, some [A] slick's tryin' to give me direction,
I say [B] leave me alone.
I'm singin' all night long, it's a family [E] tradition. _
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_ Lord, I have loved some ladies.
_ _ [A] I have loved Jim Beam.
_ [B] And they both tried to kill me _ in _ [E] 1973. _
_ _ And when that doctor asked me, [A] son, how'd you get in this condition?
I [B] said, a head's soft bones, I'm just carryin' on an old family [E] _
tradition.
_ _ Don't I _ _ dare you drink?
_ _ [A] Why do you roll smoke?
_ _ [B] Why must you live _ _ country and rock [E] and roll? _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] Everybody made my prediction.
_ [B] So if I get stoned, sing all night long, it's a family [E] tradition. _ _ _ _
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