Too Many Parties and Too Many Pals

Too Many Parties and Too Many Pals - Hank Williams (汉克·威廉姆斯)

Written by：Dixon/Henderson/Rose

Too many parties

And too many pals

Will break your heart someday

Too many boyfriends

And sociable sals

Will drive your sweetheart away

Gentlemen of the jury

The Judge's speech began

The scene was a crowded courtroom

And the Judge a sterned 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 they're 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

It hadn't been for petting parties

Cigarettes and gin

We took the night life off the streets

And brought into our own homes

While girls beat time with lipstick

And the streaks of 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 while 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

Why there's a hundred fallen men

And before you render a verdict

On what this girl has done

Just remember 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 prevalent sounds

At too many parties

And too many pals