Chords for Drunken Driver

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Now listen you drunken driver _ While [F] here on earth you dwell
_ You never know when the time will come [Cm] When you'll have to say farewell
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I saw [Fm] an accident one day _ Would charm the hearts [F] of [C] men
_ [Bb] And teach him [F] never to drink a drop [Cm] With a steering wheel [F] in his hand
This awful accident occurred _ On the twentieth day of May
_ _ [Bb] Caused two loving [F] children [C] to sleep beneath the [Fm] clay _
These two dear kids walked [F] side by [F] side _ Out on the state [Cm] highway
_ _ [Bb] Their loving mother [F] she had died [Cm] and their father had run away _
[C] They were talking of their loving parents [Fm] _ How sad their hearts did feel
When [Bb] around the curve came [Fm] a speeding car With [Cm] a drunk [F] man at the wheel _ _
The driver saw these two dear _ kids And who did a drunkard [Bb] sound
Get out of the [F] road you little [Cm] fools And the car had [C] brought them [Fm] down _ _
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[F] _ The driver staggered from his car _ To see [Bbm] what [Cm] he had done
[Bb] His heart sank [F] within him When he [C] saw his dying [C] son _
He [F] then picked up his little one _ And carried him to his car
_ _ Then leaning [Bb] on the running board [Cm] He prayed a [C] drunkard's prayer _
Saying please oh Lord forgive me For this awful crime [F] I've done
_ His attention [C] then was called away [Cm] To the words of his dying [F] son _
Saying take us to our mother [C] dad _ She sleeps beneath the ground
_ _ It was you and her we were talking [Cm] about And the car had knocked us [F] down _
[C] And please dear dad don't drink [F] no more _ While driving on your way
_ _ [Bb] But meet us with [F] our mother dad [Cm] In heaven some sweet day
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