Family Tradition Lyrics
The song Family Tradition is performed by Hank Williams Jr. in the album named Bocephus Box Set in the year 2000 .
Country music singers
Have always been a real close family
But lately some of my kinfolk
Have disowned a few others and me
I guess it's because
I kinda changed my direction
And Lord, I guess I went
And broke their family tradition
They get on me want to know
Hank, why do you drink?
Hank, why do you roll smoke?
Why must you live out
The songs that you wrote?
Over and over
Everybody met my prediction
So if I get stoned I'm just carryin'
On an old family tradition
I am very proud
Of my daddy's name
Although his kind of music
And mine ain't exactly the same
Stop and think it over
Put yourself in my position
If I get stoned and sing all night long
It's a family tradition
So don't ask me
Hank, why do you drink?
Hank, why do you roll smoke?
Why must you live out
The songs that you wrote?
If I'm down in a honky tonk
Some old slicks trying to give my friction
I say leave me alone I'm singin' all night long
It's a family tradition
Lordy, I have loved some ladies
And I have loved Jim Beam
And they both tried to kill me in 1973
When my doctor asked me
"Son, how'd you get in this condition?"
I said "Hey sawbones, I'm just carryin' on
An old family tradition"
So don't ask me
Hank, why do you drink?
Hank why do you roll smoke?
Why must you live out
The songs that you wrote?
Stop and think it over
Try to put yourself in my unique position
If I get stoned and sing all night long
It's a family tradition
Hank Williams Jr. - Bocephus Box Set
Aug 2000
- Country Boy Can Survive [Y2K Version]
- Family Tradition
- To Love Somebody
- Old Flame, New Fire
- Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line
- I've Got Rights
- I Just Ain't Been Able
- Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound
- Outlaw Women
- (I Don't Have) Anymore Love Songs
- O.D.'d in Denver
- Come and Go Blues
- The Conversation
- Old Habits
- Kaw-Liga
- If You Don't Like Hank Williams
- Dixie on My Mind
- Texas Women
- Ramblin' Man
- Waitin' on the Tables to Turn
- A Country Boy Can Survive
- Born to Boogie
- Honky Tonk Women
- All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down)
- I've Been Down
- La Grange
- Leave Them Boys Alone
- Blue Jean Blues
- Midnight Rider
- Now I Know How George Feels
- All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming over Tonight
- Major Moves
- Ain't Misbehavin'
- Lawyers, Guns and Money
- This Ain't Dallas
- Two Old Cats Like Us
- Country State of Mind
- Mind Your Own Business
- Secret Agent Man
- Wild Dogs
- My Name Is Bocephus
- Workin' for MCA
- I Really Like Girls/Rock & Roll Music
- House of the Rising Sun
- The Blues Man
- Keep Your Hands to Yourself
- Walk This Way
- Heaven Can't Be Found
- Thanks a Lot
- All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down) (Solo)
- A Country Boy Can Survive
- You're Gonna Be a Sorry Man
- Tuesday's Gone
- Mannish Boy
- Finders Are Keepers
- There's a Tear in My Beer
- Big Mamou
- Man to Man
- Stoned at the Jukebox
- 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
- Lone Wolf
- If It Will It Will
- Hotel Whiskey
- Low Down Blues
- Naked Women and Beer
Family Tradition