Don't Tell Mama I Was Drinking

Album: Sunshine & Whiskey (2014)
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  • 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

    I found him lying in the grass among steel and glass
    With an empty whiskey bottle by his side
    Through the blood and tears, he whispered in my ear
    A few last words just before he died

    And he said, "Don't tell mama I was drinking
    Cause Lord knows that her soul would never rest
    Now I can't leave this world with my mama thinking
    That I met the Lord with whiskey on my breath"

    I still think about that night
    And how that young man died
    And 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

    And he said, "Don't tell mama I was drinking
    Cause Lord knows that her soul would never rest
    Now I can't leave this world with my mama thinking
    That I met the Lord with whiskey on my breath"

    "Don't tell mama I was drinking
    Cause Lord knows that her soul would never rest
    Now I can't leave this world with my mama thinking
    That I met the Lord with whiskey on my breath
    That I met the Lord with whiskey on my breath" Writer/s: JERRY LASSITER, KIM WILLIAMS, WILLIAM BROCK
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Mark from Ocilla, GaTotally lost the song...I heard Buddy Brock sing it right after it was written. Leave it to Nashville to screw up a hit song...Should have left it "Old School".
  • Paul from Raleigh, NcSorry Frankie, your version just doesn't do the song justice. You made it all about the arrangement and production, not about the song.
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