NOTE: This is the third in a special week-long series.
Although the title track of Gary Allan's 1999 album, Smoke Rings In The Dark is a classic, another standout track that got no radio airplay is the tragically honest and thoughtful "Don't Tell Mama."
The song tells the story of a man who witnesses a car drive drunkenly off the road. When the driver of the crashed vehicle is found "lying in the grass, among the steel and glass, with an empty whiskey bottle by his side" his dying wish is to not let his mother know he died because he had been drinking. Now, one might think it was for selfish face-saving reasons, but it's because he knows that "her soul would never rest...[if she knew he] met the Lord with whiskey on [his] breath."
Sergio del Limónar
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