Hank Thompson
"The Wild Side Of Life (with Kitty Wells And Tanya Tucker)" lyrics

The Wild Side Of Life (with Kitty Wells And Tanya Tucker)

You wouldn't read my letter 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

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 that ever loved you
And went back to the wild side of life

As I sit here tonight the jukebox playing
The tune about the wild side of life
As I listen to the words you are saying
It brings memories when I was a trusting wife

It wasn't God who made honky tonk angels
As you say in the words of your song
Too many times married men
Think they're still single
That has caused many of good girls
To go wrong

It's a shame that all the blame is on us women
It's not true that only you men feel the same
From the start most every heart that's ever broken
Was because there always was a man to blame

It wasn't God who made honky tonk angels
As you say in the words of your song
Too many times married men think they're still single
That has caused many of good girls to go wrong

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 that ever loved you
And went back to the wild side of life
And went back to the wild side of life

Authors: Arlie A. Carter, William Warren