--Don’t tell mama-- Gary Allan
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I was headed north on Highway Five
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On a star-lit Sunday night
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When a pick-up truck flew by me
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out of control
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As I watched in my headlights
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He swerved left then back right
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He never hit the brakes
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As he left the road
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I found him lying in the grass
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Among the steel and glass
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With an empty whiskey bottle
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by his side
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And through the blood and tears
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He whispered in my ear
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A few last words
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just before he died
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Don't tell Mama I was drinkin'
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Lord knows her soul would never rest
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I can't leave this world with Mama thinkin'
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I met the Lord with whiskey on my breath
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I still think about that night
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And how that young man died
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And how others sometimes pay
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for our mistakes
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The last thing on his mind
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As he left this world behind
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Was knowing someone else's
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heart would break
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Don't tell Mama I was drinkin'
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Lord knows her soul would never rest
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I can't leave this world with Mama thinkin'
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I met the Lord with whiskey on my breath
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Don't tell Mama I was drinkin'
