40. Too Many Parties Too Many Pals - Jim Reeves (吉姆·里夫斯)
Too many parties and too many pals
May break your heart someday
Too many boyfriends and sociable gals
May drive your sweetheart away
Gentlemen of the jury
The judge's speech began
The scene was a crowded courtroom
And the judge a stern 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 are 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 gin
We took the night life off the streets
And brought it in our own homes
While girls beguiled with lipstick
Danced to 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 well you taught her
And if she smokes you showed her how
So gentlemen do you think
It's right to condemn her now
And when you're in that
Juryroom just remember there and then
That for every fallen woman
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
(Too many parties and too many pals)
