Drunken Driver Lyrics - Singles - Ricky Skaggs

Now listen here, drunken driver 

While here on earth you dwell 

You never know when the time will come 

When you'll have to say farewell 

I saw an accident one day 

Would charm the hearts of man 

And teach him never to drink a drop 

With a steerin' wheel in his hand 

This awful accident occurred 

On the twentieth day of May 

And caused to loving children 

To sleep beneath the clay 

These two dear kids walked side by side 

Out on a state highway 

Their lovin' mother, she had died 

And their father had run away 

They were talking of their loving parents 

How sad their hearts did feel 

When around the curve came a speedin' car 

With a drunk man at the wheel 

The driver saw these two dear kids 

And hooted a drunkard sound 

"Get out of the road, you little fools" 

And the car had brought them down 

The driver staggered from his car 

To see what he had done 

His heart sank within him 

When he saw his dyin' on 

He then picked up his little one 

And carried him to his car 

Then leanin' on the runnin' board 

He prayed a drunkard's prayer 

Sayin', "Please, oh Lord, forgive me 

For this awful crime I've done" 

His attention then was called away 

To the words of his dyin' son 

Sayin' "Take us to our mother, Dad 

She sleeps beneath the ground 

It was you and her we was talkin' about 

When the car had knocked us down" 

"And please, dear Dad, don't drink no more 

While drivin' on your way 

But meet us with our mother, Dad 

In heaven some sweet day"