G C Em A7
Well, you wouldn't read my letters if I wrote you
D7 G
You ask me not to call you on the phone
C Em A7
Well, there's something I've been wanting to tell you
D7 G
So I wrote it in the words of this song
[Chorus]
G C
I didn't know there ain't honky-tonk angels
D7 G
Oh, I might have know you never make a wife
C Em A7
You gave up the only one that ever loved you
D7 G
You went back to that wild side of life
[Verse 2]
G C Em A7
The glamour of the gay night life has lured you
D7 G
To places where the wine and liquor flow
C Em A7
You just sit and wait to be anybody's baby
D7 G
You forget the truest love you ever know
[Chorus]
G C
I didn't know there ain't honky-tonk angels
D7 G
Oh, I might have know you never make a wife
C Em A7
You gave up the only one that ever loved you
D7 G
You went back to that wild side of life.
