Ricky Skaggs - Drunken Driver lyrics

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Now listen here, drunken driver

While here on earth you dwell

You never know when the time will come

When you'll have to say farewell

I saw an accident one day

Would charm the hearts of man

And teach him never to drink a drop

With a steerin' wheel in his hand

This awful accident occured

On the twentieth day of May

And caused to loving children

To sleep beneath the clay

These two dear kids walked side by side

Out on a state highway

Their lovin' mother, she had died

And their father had run away

They were talking of their loving parents

How sad their hearts did feel

When around the curve came a speedin' car

With a drunk man at the wheel

The driver saw these two dear kids

And hooted a drunkard sound

"Get out of the road, you little fools"

And the car had brought them down

The driver staggered from his car

To see what he had done

His heart sank within him

When he saw his dyin' on

He then picked up his little one

And carried him to his car

Then leanin' on the runnin' board

He prayed a drunkard's prayer

Sayin', "Please, oh Lord, forgive me

For this awful crime I've done"

His attention then was called away

To the words of his dyin' son

Sayin' "Take us to our mother, Dad

She sleeps beneath the ground

It was you and her we was talkin' about

When the car had knocked us down"

"And please, dear Dad, don't drink no more

While drivin' on your way

But meet us with our mother, Dad

In heaven some sweet day"