Tonalidad: Gb major
Verse 1
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My name is Ferlin Husky.
I'd like to tell you about a man
that let alcohol destroy everything that God
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gave him.
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I saw an accident one day
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that would chill the heart of any man.
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It would teach them not to drink a drop
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while the steering wheel's
in their hand.
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This awful accident
occurred on the 20th day of May
and caused two little children
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to be sleeping beneath the clay.
These two little kids
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walked side by side
along the state highway.
their poor old mother she had died
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and their daddy had ran away
as these two little children
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walked arm -in -arm
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how sad their hearts did feel
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when around the curve
came a speeding car
with a drunk man at the wheel
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the drunk man saw the little kids
and he hollered a drunkard sound
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get out of the road you little fools
and the car it brought them down.
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The bumper struck the little girl
taking her life away
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while the little boy in a puddle of blood
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in the ditch line there did lay.
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The drunk man staggered from his car
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to see the damage that he had done
and then he let out a yell
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you could hear for miles
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when he recognized his dying son.
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Such mourning from a
drunken man
I've never heard before.
While kneeling down by his car,
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he prayed to heaven's door,
saying, Oh God, please forgive me
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for this awful crime I've done.
And his attention then was called away
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by the words of his dying son.
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He said, Daddy,
why did you do this to us?
How come you run us to the ground?
It was you and mommy we
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were talking about
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when the quarry brought us down
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and I was just telling little sister
that I knew we'd see you again someday but
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daddy why did it have to be like this?
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Why did it have to be this way?
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Why, Daddy? Why?
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