I:
A# D#
Well you wouldn't read my letters if I wrote you
F7 A#
You asked me not to call you on the phone
A# A#7 D#
Well there's something I've been waiting for to tell you
F7 A#
So I wrote it in the words of a song
II:
A# D#
Now the glamour of the gay night-life has lured you
F7 A#
To the places where the wine and liquor flow
A# D#
Well you went to be somebody else's baby
F7 A#
And forget the truest love you've ever known
Chorus:
A# D#
I never knew there were honky-tonk angels
F7 A#
Oh I might have known you'd never make a wife
A# A#7 D# - D#/D - Cm
You gave up the only one who ever loved you
F7 A#
And went back to that wild side of life
II:
A# D#
Now the glamour of the gay night-life has lured you
F7 A#
To the places where the wine and liquor flow
A# D#
Well you went to be somebody else's baby
F7 A#
And forget the truest love you've ever known
Chorus (x2):
A# D#
I never knew there were honky-tonk angels
F7 A#
Oh I might have known you'd never make a wife
A# A#7 D# - D#/D - Cm
You gave up the only one who ever loved you
F7 A#
And went back to that wild side of life
