Too Many Parties Too Many Pals Lyrics - Hank Williams

Too many parties and too many pals will break your heart someday 

Too many boyfriends and sociable sounds will drive your sweetheart away 

Gentlemen of the jury the judge's speech began 

The scene was a crowded courtroom and the judge a stern old man 

This prisoner here before you is a social enemy 

A lady of the evening and you know the penalty 

Her eyes reflect the nightlife her cheeks are red with paint 

But I knew her mother gentlemen why her mother was a saint 

Now I know that she's not like her and yet she might have been 

If it hadn't been for pettin' parties cigarettes and gin 

We took the night life off the streets and brought it in our own homes 

While girls beguiled with lipstick danced to saxophones 

We opened up the underworld to the ones we loved so well 

So tell me gentlemen is it right to send her to a cell 

If she drinks well you taught her and if she smokes you showed her how 

So gentlemen do you think it's right to go and condemn her now 

And when you're in that juryroom just remember there and then 

That for every fallen woman there's a hundred fallen men 

And before you render a verdict on what this girl has done 

Just remember that there's a man to blame and that man might be your son 

Now gentlemen that's my story my testimony stands 

This girl is my own daughter and the case is in your hands 

Those Broadway roses and credible sounds 

Had too many many parties and too many pals 

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