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.