Drunken Driver Lyrics - Country Legends Back To Back, Vol. 3 - Ferlin Husky

Friends, my name is Ferlin Husky. 

I'd like to tell you 'bout a man that let alcohol 

destroy everything that God gave him 

I saw an accident one day that would chill the heart of any man 

It would teach them not to drink a drop 

While the steering wheel's in their hand 

This awful accident occurred on the 20th day of May 

And caused two little children to be sleepin' beneath the clay 

These two little kids walked side by side along the state highway 

Their poor old mother, she had died 

And their daddy had ran away 

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As these two little children walked arm in arm 

How sad their hearts did feel 

When around the curb came a speeding car 

With a drunk man at the wheel 

The drunk man saw the little kids 

And he hollered a drunked sound 

"Get out of the road you little fools" 

And the car, it brought them down 

The bumper struck the little girl, takin' her life away 

While the little boy, in a puddle of blood 

In the ditch, lyin' there did lay 

The drunk man staggered from his car 

To see the damage that he had done 

And then he let out a yell you could hear for miles 

When he recognized his dyin' son 

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Such mournin' from a drunken man, I've never heard before 

While kneeling down by his car he prayed to heavens door 

Sayin', "Oh God, please forgive me for this awful crime I've done" 

And his attention then was called away 

By the words of his dyin' son 

He said, "Daddy, why did you do this to us 

How come you run us to the ground? 

It was you and Mummy we were talkin' about, 

When the car, it brought us down 

And I was just tellin' little sister 

That I knew we'd see you again someday 

But, Daddy, why did it have to be this way 

Why did it