Chords
Family Tradition

Key: E

Introduction:

difficulty
very easy |||||
 E                                                                     A 
Country music singers always been a real close family
         B7                                                                                                   E 
But lately some of my kinfolks have disowned a few others and me
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And I guess it's because, I kinda changed my direction
 B7                                                                                   E 
Lord, I guess I went and broke their Family Tradition
So they wanna know Hank
 E                       F  G/F#  G 
Why do you drink? (Get Drunk)
 A 
Why do you roll smoke? (Get Stoned)
 B7                                                                     E 
Why must you live out the songs that you wrote?   (Get Laid)
                                                                         A 
Stop and think it over, put yourself in my position
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If I get stoned, sing all night long, it's a Family Tradition.
   E                                 A 
Lord I am very proud, of my daddy's name
 B7                                                                                                     E 
Although his kind of music, and mine ain't exactly the same
                                                                             A 
If I'm down in a honky-tonk, and some ol slicks tryin' to gimme some
friction
 B7                                                                                                   E 
Say leave me alone singin' all night long it's a Family Tradition
Still they all wanna know Hank
 E                       F  G/F#  G 
Why do you drink? (Get Drunk)
 A 
Why do you roll smoke? (Get Stoned)
 B7                                                                           E 
Why must you live out the songs that you wrote?   (Get Laid)
                                                                                 A 
Stop and think it over, put yourself in my unique position
       B7                                                                                                                   E 
If I get stoned and sing all night long, it's just a Family Tradition.
 E                                                         A 
I have loved some ladies, and I have love Jim Beam
         B7                                                                                                     E 
And they both tried to kill me, back in nineteen seventy-three
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When that doctor asks me, "Son, how'd ya get in this condition?"
               B7                                                                                                 E 
I say "Hey Sawbone, I'm just carryin' on an old Family Tradition."
Chorus:3
 E               F  G/F#  G 
Why do you drink? (Get Drunk)
 A 
Why do you roll smoke? (Get Stoned)
 B7                                                                     E 
Why must you live out the songs that you wrote?   (Get Laid)
                                                                             A 
Stop and think it over, put yourself in my position
 B7                                                                                                                           E 
If I get stoned and sing all night long, it's just a Family Tradition.
 B7                                                                                                                           E 
If I get stoned and sing all night long, it's just a Family Tradition.