The Wild Side of Life - Hank Williams

You wouldn’t read my letters 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.

Chorus:

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 who ever loved you

And went back to the wild side of life.

The glamour of the gay night life has lured you

To the places where the wine and liquor flow

Where you wait to be anybodys baby

And forget the truest love you’ll ever know.

It hurt me to know that you don’t love me

Though I know that our love’s forever gone

And it killed my soul and pride, dear, inside me

When I saw you in that strangers arms so long.

Chorus:

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 who ever loved you

And went back to the wild side of life.

I’ll just live my life alone with mem’ries of you

And dream of kisses you traded for my tears

And no one will ever know how much I loved you

And I pray that you’ll be happy through the years.

Chorus:

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 who ever loved you

And went back to the wild side of life…