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Now listen, you, drunken driver while here on earth you dwell
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You never know when the time to come when you'll have to say fare- well

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I saw an accident one day, would charm the hearts of man
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And teach him never to drink and drive with a steerin' wheel in his hand

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This awful accident occurred on the twentieth day of May
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And caused to lovin' children to sleep beneath the clay

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These two dear kids walked side by side out on a state high- way
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Their lovin' mother, she had died and their father had run a- way

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They were talking of their loving parents, how sad their hearts did feel
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When a- round the curve came a speedin' car with a drunk man at the wheel

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The driver saw these two dear kids and hooted a drunkard sound
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?Get out of the road, you, little fools? and the car had brought them down

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The driver staggered from his car to see what he had done
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His heart sank with- in him when he saw his dyin' son

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He then picked up his little one and carried him to his car
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Then leanin' on the runnin' board, he prayed a drunkard's prayer

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Sayin', ?Please, oh Lord, forgive me for this awful crime I've done?
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His at- tention then was called away to the words of his dyin' son

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Sayin' ?Take us to our mother, Dad. She sleeps be- neath the ground
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It was you and her we was talkin' about when the car had knocked us down?

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?And please, dear Dad, don't drink no more while drivin' on your way
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But meet us with our mother, Dad, in heaven some sweet day?