Family Tradition Chords by Hank Williams, Jr.

[Start]

[Verse]
E                      
■ Country music singers
                   A7   A     A7    
Have always been a real close family
B7                            
But lately some of my kinfolks
                               E 
Have disowned a few others and me
             E      
I guess it's because
        A            A7        A
I kinda ■ changed my direction ■
B7                                         E        
Lord I guess I went and broke their family tradition
E                              
They get on me and want to know


[Chorus]
     E               
Hank why do you drink
A                    A7   
Hank why do you roll smoke
B7                                       E    
Why must you live out the songs that you wrote
         E   
Over and over
A                            
Everybody makes my prediction
      B B7                             
So if I get stoned I'm just carrying on
              E        
An old family tradition


[Verse]
          E    
I am very proud
A                 
Of my daddy's name
B7                        
Although his kind of music
                           E7  
And mine ain't exactly the same
E                     
Stop and think it over
    A7                     
Put yourself in my position
B7                                     
If I get stoned and sing all night long
              E7       
It's a family tradition
E              
So don't ask me


[Chorus]
     E               
Hank why do you drink
A                          A7
Hank why do you roll smoke ■ 
B7                                       E    
Why must you live out the songs that you wrote
E                         
If I'm down in a honkytonk
             A7                                
And some ole slick's trying to give me friction
         B7            
I'll say leave me alone
            B7            
I'm singing all night long
              E7       
It's a family tradition


[Inst]
E A A7 B7 E A B7 E
■ ■ ■  ■  ■ ■ ■  ■


[Verse]
E                             
Lordy I have loved some ladies
A                    A7   A
And I have loved Jim Beam ■
B7                                         E           
And they both tried to kill me in nineteen seventythree
E                        
When that doctor asked me
A                      E7   A7       
Son how did you get in this condition
       B7          
I said Hey Sawbones
                                   E        
I'm just carrying on an ole family tradition
   E           
So don't ask me


[Chorus]
                E7   
Hank why do you drink
A                A7   
Hank why do roll smoke
B7                                       E    
Why must you live out the songs that you wrote
E                     
Stop and think it over
           A                     A7      
Try to put yourself in my unique position
B7                                     
If I get stoned and sing all night long
              E        
It's a family tradition


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