Hank Williams – Too Many Parties And Too Many Pals (Guitar)

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[Intro] | C | A7 | Dm7 | G7 | G7 | [Verse 1]
C        A7          D7
Too many parties and too many pals

     G7                   C
Will break your heart someday

         A7             D7
Too many boyfriends and sociable salts

     G7              G      C     A7
Will drive your sweetheart away
(parlando until outro) [Verse 2]
D7
Gentlemen of the jury, the judge's speech began

G7
The scene was a crowded courtroom

        C
And the judge a sterned old man

                               A7
This prisoner here before you:  Is a social enemy

D7
A lady of the evening and you know the penalty
[Verse 3]
G                         G7
Her eyes reflect the nightlife, her cheeks they're red with paint

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

                 Am7                    A7   D7
Now, I know that she's not like her and yet, she might have been

                                           G7
If it hadn't been for pettin' parties, cigarettes and gin
[Verse 3]
                               C
We took the night life off the streets and brought into our own homes

            Cm                C     A7
While girls beat time with lipstick and the shreeks of saxophones

D7
We opened up the underworld to the ones we loved so well

G7
So tell me gentlemen is it right to send her to a cell?
[Verse 4]
C
If she drinks while you taught her and if she smokes you showed her how

   A7                                               D7
So gentlemen do you think it's right to condemn her now?

                                                G7
And when you're in that jury room just remember there and then

                                         C
That for every fallen woman, why there's a hundred fallen men
[Verse 5]
                                A7/G         A7
And before you render a verdict on what this girl has done

                            D7
Just remember there's a man to blame and that man might be your son

G7
 Now, gentlemen that's my story, my testimony stands

             C
This girl is my own daughter and the case is in your hands
[Outro]
               A7        D7
Those Broadway roses and prevalence sounds

C                       D7  G    C
At too many parties and too many pals