The Drunken Driver-Ferlin Husky/The Vel-Aires

[ti:The Drunken Driver] [ar:Ferlin Husky] [al:Songs for the Departed: Music About Death 1914-1960, Vol. 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Drunken Driver - Ferlin Husky/The Vel-Aires [00:07.39]Friends there's something been haunting me [00:09.52] [00:10.27]And I just got to tell you about it [00:11.98] [00:13.40]I saw an accident one day [00:15.13] [00:15.84]That would chill the heart of any man [00:17.95] [00:19.12]And teach them not to drink a drop [00:20.89] [00:21.64]While the steering wheel's in their hand [00:23.96] [00:24.97]This awfull accident occurred [00:26.51]On the 20th day of May [00:28.83] [00:29.85]And caused two dear little [00:31.30]Children to be sleeping beneath the clay [00:34.80] [00:36.00]These two little kids walked side [00:37.88]By side along the state highway [00:40.84] [00:42.10]Their poor old mother she had died [00:44.69] [00:45.35]And their daddy had run away [00:47.63] [00:48.87]As these two little kids walked arm [00:51.00]In arm how sad their hearts did feel [00:54.43] [00:55.46]When around the curb came a speeding car [00:57.98] [00:58.68]With a drunk man at the wheel [01:01.20] [01:02.22]The drunk man saw the two little kids [01:04.48] [01:05.01]And he hollered a drunken sound [01:06.55] [01:07.30]"Get out of the road you little fools" [01:09.17] [01:09.98]And the car it brought them down [01:12.65] [01:13.39]The bumper struck the little girl [01:15.56]Taking her life away [01:16.94] [01:17.86]While the little boy [01:19.53]In a puddle of blood [01:20.85] [01:21.49]In the ditch lying there did lay [01:23.95] [01:24.68]The drunk man staggered [01:25.96]From his car to see the damage [01:28.62]That he had done [01:29.60] [01:30.43]And he let out a yell [01:31.52]You could hear for miles [01:33.01]When he recognized his dying son [01:35.54] [01:36.45]Such mourning from a drunken man [01:38.54]I've never heard before [01:40.06] [01:40.77]While kneeling at the running board [01:42.90]He prayed to heavens door [01:44.47] [01:45.11]Saying "Oh God please forgive me [01:47.28] [01:47.93]For this awful crime I've done" [01:49.60] [01:50.41]And his attention then was called away [01:53.09]By the words of his dying son [01:55.99]And he said [01:56.48]"Daddy why did you do this to us [01:59.55] [02:00.22]How come you run us to the ground [02:02.02] [02:02.72]It was you and Mummy we was talking about [02:05.02] [02:05.59]When the car it brought us down [02:07.46] [02:08.24]And I was just telling little sister [02:10.50]That I knew we'd see you again someday [02:12.56] [02:13.42]But Daddy why did it have to be like this [02:16.09] [02:16.84]Why did it have to be this way [02:18.81] [02:19.43]Why Daddy Why