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Turn Back The Years: The Essential Hank Williams Collection

1. Too Many Parties And Too Many Pals

   Lyrics: Too Many Parties And Too Many Pals

   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
   If it hadn't been for pettin' parties
   Cigarettes and gin
   We took the nightlife 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 jury room
   Just remember there and then
   That for every fallen woman
   Well, 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