{"id":7588,"date":"2022-02-22T20:15:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T20:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=7588"},"modified":"2025-09-17T19:41:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T19:41:22","slug":"honky-tonk-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/honky-tonk-angels\/","title":{"rendered":"Honky Tonk Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"

A B7 E<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[Verse] [ C F G7 C ]\u00a0\u00a0 You wouldn’t [C] read my letter if I [F] wrote you.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span>You [G7] asked me not to call you on the [C] phone.\u00a0 But there’s [C] something I’m wanting to [F] tell you, so I G7] wrote it in the words of this [C] song<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

{ CHORUS } – – – – – [ C F G7 C ]\u00a0 I didn’t know God made honky tonk angels.\u00a0 I might have known you’d never make a wife.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 You gave-up the only one who ever loved you, and went back to the wild side of life.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

[Verse] [ C F G7 C ]\u00a0 \u00a0 So you sit there tonight, the jukebox playin’<\/strong><\/span> a song about the wild side of life<\/strong><\/span>, and you listen to the words they are sayin’<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 It brings memories of when you were a trusting wife<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

{ CHORUS } – – – – – [ C F G7 C ]\u00a0 \u00a0 It wasn’t God who made honky tonk angels.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span>As they say in the words of this song<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0 Too many times married men think they’re single.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span>And it’s caused many a good girl to go wrong<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

[Verse] [ C F G7 C ]\u00a0 \u00a0 It’s a shame that all the blame is on the women.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span>It’s not-true that men don’t share the blame<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0 From the start most-every heart that’s ever broken w<\/strong><\/span>as because the men and women felt the same<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

{ CHORUS } – – – – – [ C F G7 C ]\u00a0 \u00a0 It wasn’t God who made honky tonk angels, a<\/strong><\/span>s they say in the words of this song<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0 Too many times the married feel that they’re single.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span>And go back to the wild side of life.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 They go back to the wild side of life<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A B7 E [Verse] [ C F G7 C ]\u00a0\u00a0 You wouldn’t [C] read my letter if I [F] wrote you.\u00a0 You [G7] asked me not to call you on the [C] phone.\u00a0 But there’s [C] something I’m wanting to [F] tell you, so I G7] wrote it in the … CLICK TO VIEW SONGHonky Tonk Angels<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,56,116,117,115,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-chords","category-country-western","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-tenor","category-love-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}