Karaoké Don't Tell Mama Gary Allan

I was headed north on Highway Five on a star-lit

Sunday night

When a pick-up truck flew by me out of control

As I watched in my headlights

He swerved left 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

Don't tell mama

I was drinking

Lord knows her soul would never rest

I can't leave this world with mama thinking

I met the Lord with whiskey on my breath

I still think about that 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

Don't tell mama

I was drinking

Lord knows her soul would never rest

I can't leave this world with mama thinking

I met the Lord with whiskey on my breath

Don't tell mama

I was drinking