Too Many Parties And Too Many Pals chords by Hank Williams

• Difficulty: Beginner

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

🎸 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