Featuring: Hank Thompson

You wouldn't read my letter if I wrote you

You asked me not to call you on the phone
But there's something I'm wanting to tell you
So I wrote it in the words of this song


I didn't know God made honky tonk angels
I might have known you'd never make a wife

You gave up the only one that ever loved you
And went back to the wild side of life


As I sit here tonight the jukebox's playing
The tune about the wild side of life
As I listen to the words you are saying

It brings mem'ries when I was a trustin' wife

It wasn't God who made honky tonk angels

As you said in the words of your song
Too many times married men think they're still single
That has caused many-a good girl to go wrong


It's a shame that all the blame is on us women
It's not true that only you men feel the same

From the start most every heart that's ever broken
Was because there always was a man to blame


It wasn't God who made who made honky tonk angels
As you said in the words of your song
Too many times married men think they're still single

That has caused many-a good girl to go wrong

I didn't know God made honky tonk angels

I might have known you'd never make a wife
You gave up the only one that ever loved you
And went back to the wild side of life

And went back to the wild side of life