Don't Tell Mama I Was Drinking Lyrics - Frankie Ballard

1 I was headed north on Highway 5

2 On a starlit Sunday night

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

4 As I watched in my headlights,

5 He swerved left and then back right

6 Never hit the brakes as he left the road

7 I found him lying in the grass among steel and glass

8 With an empty whiskey bottle by his side

9 Through the blood and tears, he whispered in my ear

10 A few last words just before he died

11 And he said, "Don't tell mama I was drinking

12 'Cause Lord knows that her soul would never rest

13 Now I can't leave this world with my mama thinking

14 That I met the Lord with whiskey on my breath"

15 I still think about that night

16 And how that young man died

17 And how others sometimes pay for our mistakes

18 Well the last thing on his mind

19 As he left this world behind

20 Was knowing someone else's heart would break

21 And he said, "Don't tell mama I was drinking

22 'Cause Lord knows that her soul would never rest

23 Now I can't leave this world with my mama thinking

24 That I met the Lord with whiskey on my breath"

25 "Don't tell mama I was drinking

26 'Cause Lord knows that her soul would never rest

27 Now I can't leave this world with my mama thinking

28 That I met the Lord with whiskey on my breath

29 That I met the Lord with whiskey on my breath"