A glamour of the gay night life has lured you To the places where the wine and liquor flow Where you wait to be anybody's baby and give off the only love you'll ever know It wasn't God who 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 [ dobro - guitar ] I didn't know God made honky tonk angels... And went back to the wild side of life