Recorded by Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper; Molly O'Day & Ferlin Husky, to name a few...

THE DRUNKEN DRIVER

Friends something been haunting me
And I just gotta tell you about it
I saw an accident one day
That would chill the heart of any man
And teach him not to drink a drop
With the steering wheel in his hand
This awful accident occurred
On the 20th day of May
And caused two dear little children
To be sleeping beneath the clay
Their poor old mother she had died
And their daddy had run away
As these two little kids walked arm-in-arm
Down the state highway
How sad their hearts did feel
When around the curve came a speeding car
With a drunk man at the wheel
Well the drunk man saw the two little kids
And hollered a drunkard sound
Get out of the road, you little fools
But the car it brought them down
The bumper sruck the little girl
Taking her life away
While the little boy in a puddle of blood
In the ditch lieing there did lay
Well the drunk man staggered from his car
To see the damage that he had done
He let out a yell you could hear for miles
When he recognized his dying son
Such mourning from a drunken man
I have never heard before
While kneeling at the running board
He prayed to Heavens door
He said oh God please forgive me
For this awful crime i've done
When his attention then was called away
By the words of his dying son
He said Daddy; how come you run us to the ground?
It was you and Mommy we were talking about
when the car it brought us down
I was just telling little sister
I knew we would see you again someday
Why did it have to be like this?
Why did it have to be this way?
Why Daddy? Why?