Don'€™t Tell Mama I Was Drinking Lyrics

CAPO: NONE
INTRO:
VERSE:
I was headed north on Highway 5
On a starlit Sunday night
When a pick-up truck flew by me out of control
As I watched in my headlights,
He swerved left
And then back right
Never hit the brakes
As he left the road
VERSE:
I found him lying in the grass
Among the steel and glass
With an empty whiskey bottle by his side
And through the blood and tears,
He whispered in my ear
A few last words
Just before he died
CHORUS:
And he said,
"Don't tell mama I was drinking
Cause Lord knows
That her soul would never rest
And I can't leave this world
With my mama thinking
That I met the Lord
With whiskey on my breath"
VERSE:
I still think about that night
And how that young man died
How others sometimes pay
For our mistakes
Well the last thing on his mind
As he left this world behind
Was knowing someone else's heart would break
CHORUS:
And he says
"Don't tell mama I was drinking
Cause Lord knows
That her soul would never rest
No, I can't leave this world
With my mama thinking
That I met the Lord
With whiskey on my breath"
Woho woh woh
INSTRUMENTAL/SOLO:
Yeah yeah ah ah
Oh oh woh woh
CHORUS:
"Don't tell mama I was drinking
Cause Lord knows
That her soul would never rest
No, I can't leave this world
With my mama thinking no
That I met the Lord
With whiskey on my breath
That I met the Lord
With whiskey on my breath"
TAB BY: DON CZARSKI
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DON'T TELL MAMA I WAS DRINKING
FRANKIE BALLARD
CAPO: 1st FRET
INTRO:
VERSE:
I was headed north on Highway 5
On a starlit Sunday night
When a pick-up truck flew by me out of control
As I watched in my headlights,
He swerved left
And then back right
Never hit the brakes
As he left the road
VERSE:
I found him lying in the grass
Among the steel and glass
With an empty whiskey bottle by his side
And through the blood and tears,
He whispered in my ear
A few last words
Just before he died
CHORUS:
And he said,
"Don't tell mama I was drinking
Cause Lord knows
That her soul would never rest
And I can't leave this world
With my mama thinking
That I met the Lord
With whiskey on my breath"
VERSE:
I still think about that night
And how that young man died
How others sometimes pay
For our mistakes
Well the last thing on his mind
As he left this world behind
Was knowing someone else's heart would break
CHORUS:
And he says
"Don't tell mama I was drinking
Cause Lord knows
That her soul would never rest
No, I can't leave this world
With my mama thinking
That I met the Lord
With whiskey on my breath"
Woho woh woh
INSTRUMENTAL/SOLO:
Yeah yeah ah ah
Oh oh woh woh
CHORUS:
"Don't tell mama I was drinking
Cause Lord knows
That her soul would never rest
No, I can't leave this world
With my mama thinking no
That I met the Lord
With whiskey on my breath
That I met the Lord
With whiskey on my breath"