Family Tradition Chords by Hank Williams Jr

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_ _ Country music singers have always [A] been a real close family. _ _
_ [B] But lately some of my kinfolks have disowned a few [F#m] others than [E] me. _
_ I guess it's because I kind [A] of changed my direction.
_ _ [B] Lord, I guess I went and broke their [D#] family _ [E] tradition.
_ _ Get on and want to know Hank, why do you drink?
_ [A] Hank, why do you roll smoke?
_ _ [B] Why must you _ live by the songs that [E] you wrote? _ _ _ _
Over and over, _ [A] everybody made my predictions.
_ [B] So if I get stoned, I'm just carrying on and on. _ Family [E] tradition. _ _ _ _
_ _ I am very proud _ _ [A] of my daddy's name.
_ _ [B] Although his kind of music _ and mine ain't exactly [E] the same.
_ _ Stop and think it over.
_ [A] Put yourself in my position.
_ _ [B] If I get stoned and sing all night long, it's a family [A] _
tradition.
_ [E] _ Go on, ask me Hank, why do you drink?
_ [A] Hank, why do you roll smoke?
_ _ [B] Why must you _ live by the songs that you [E] wrote?
_ _ If I'm down in a honky tonk, [A] some old slick's trying to give me corrections.
_ [B] I say leave me alone, I'm singing all night long, it's a family [E] tradition.
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_ _ _ _ [C#m] _ [E] Lordy, I have loved some ladies.
_ [A] And I have loved Jim B.
_ _ [B] And they both tried to kill me _ in _ _ [E] 1973.
_ _ _ When they asked me, _ [A] son, how'd you get in this condition?
I [B] said, I hate false alarms, I'm just carrying on an old [D#] family _ [E] tradition.
_ _ So go on, ask me Hank, why _ do you drink? _
Hank, [A] why do you roll smoke?
_ _ [B] Why must you _ live by the _ songs that you [E] wrote?
_ _ Stop and think it over.
Try to put [A] yourself in my unique position.
_ [B] If I get stoned and sing all night long, it's a family _ [E] tradition.
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