Drunken Driver

Drunken Driver - Ferlin Husky/Henry Whitter/The Hushpuppies/Clayton McMichen

Friends there's something been haunting me

And I just got to tell you about it

I saw an accident one day

That would chill the heart of any man

And teach them not to drink a drop

While the steering wheel's in their hand

This awfull accident occurred

On the 20th day of May

And caused two dear little

Children to be sleeping 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 run away

As these two little kids 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 two little kids

And he hollered a drunken sound

"Get out of the road you little fools"

And the car it brought them down

The bumper struck the little girl

Taking her life away

While the little boy

In a puddle of blood

In the ditch lying there did lay

The drunk man staggered

From his car to see the damage

That he had done

And he let out a yell

You could hear for miles

When he recognized his dying son

Such mourning from a drunken man

I've never heard before

While kneeling at the running board

He prayed to heavens door

Saying "Oh God please forgive me

For this awful crime I've done"

And his attention then was called away

By the words of his dying son

And he said

"Daddy why did you do this to us

How come you run us to the ground

It was you and Mummy we was talking about

When the car it brought us down

And I was just telling little sister

That I knew we'd see you again someday

But Daddy why did it have to be like this

Why did it have to be this way

Why Daddy Why