Too Many Parties, Too Many Pals-Jim Reeves

[ti:Too Many Parties Too Many Pals] [ar:Jim Reeves] [al:A Touch of Velvet: The Signature Series] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]40. Too Many Parties Too Many Pals - Jim Reeves (吉姆·里夫斯) [00:01.00]Too many parties and too many pals [00:10.47]May break your heart someday [00:19.76]Too many boyfriends and sociable gals [00:29.73]May drive your sweetheart away [00:42.70]Gentlemen of the jury [00:44.78]The judge's speech began [00:48.57]The scene was a crowded courtroom [00:50.57]And the judge a stern old man [00:54.47]This prisoner here [00:55.19]Before you is a social enemy [00:58.80]A lady of the evening [01:01.08]And you know the penalty [01:03.87]Her eyes reflect the nightlife [01:06.35]Her cheeks are red with paint [01:09.83]But I knew her mother gentlemen [01:12.58]Why her mother was a saint [01:16.55]Now I know that she's not like her [01:19.14]And yet she might have been [01:21.15]If it hadn't been for pettin' parties [01:23.45]Cigarettes gin [01:26.98]We took the night life off the streets [01:29.20]And brought it in our own homes [01:31.35]While girls beguiled with lipstick [01:33.59]Danced to saxophones [01:36.46]We opened up the underworld [01:37.90]To the ones we loved so well [01:40.03]So tell me gentlemen [01:41.89]Is it right to send her to a cell [01:44.66]If she drinks well you taught her [01:47.72]And if she smokes you showed her how [01:51.16]So gentlemen do you think [01:52.27]It's right to condemn her now [01:55.14]And when you're in that [01:56.18]Juryroom just remember there and then [01:58.49]That for every fallen woman [02:01.22]There's a hundred fallen men [02:03.98]And before you render a verdict on [02:05.50]What this girl has done [02:06.59]Just remember [02:07.97]There's a man to blame [02:10.09]And that man might be your son [02:15.09]Now gentlemen [02:15.84]That's my story [02:17.41]My testimony stands [02:20.00]This girl is my own daughter [02:23.12]And the case is in your hands [02:26.53](Too many parties and too many pals)