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Don’t Tell Mamma (Studio Bonus)
Doug Stone
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I was heading north on highway 5
It started Sunday night
When a pickup truck flew by me
Out of control
As I watched in my headlights
He swerved left and then back right
He never hit the brakes as he left the road
I found him lying in the grass
Among the steel and glass
With an empty whiskey bottle by his side
And through the blood and tears
He whispered in my ear
A few last words just before he died
He said, "Don't tell mamma I was drinking
Lord knows her soul would never rest
I can't leave this world with mamma thinking
That I met the Lord with whiskey on my breath"
I still think about the night
And how that young man died
And how others sometimes
Pay for our mistakes
The last thing on his mind
As he left this world behind
Was knowing someone else's
Heart would break
He said, "Don't tell mamma I was drinking
Lord knows her soul would never rest
I can't leave this world with mamma thinking
That I met the Lord with whiskey on my breath"
He said, "Don't tell mamma I was drinking"