Well you wouldn't read my letters
   If I wrote you
   You urged me not to call you on the phone
   There's something I've been waiting
   For to tell you
   So I wrote it in the words of this song
  
   You never knew there were honky tonk angels
   Or you might have known
   I'd never make a wife
   You walked out on the only one
   Who ever loved you
   So I went on back to the wild side of life
  
   Now the climate of all the good life
   Oh has led me
   To the places where the wine
   And the liquor flow
   I tried to be your one and only angel
   But I'm not that kind of angel heaven knows
   No no no no
  
   I cried so hard
   The day you went and left me
   'Cause the things you said
   They cut me like a knife
   What you wanted was another kind of angel
   And you sent me back to the wild side or life, no
  
   Well I'm just some trussed up honky tonk angel
   And I might have known
   I'd never make a wife
   Well you left the only one
   Who ever loved you
   And I'm back here on the wild side of life
  
   I'm only a honky tonk angel
   And I might have known I'd never make a wife
   You walked out on the only one
   Who ever loved you
   And you left me here
   On the wild side of life