Tonk Quotes
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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
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More Tonk Quotes
It wasn't God who made honky tonk angels As you said in the words of your song Too many times married men think they're still single That has caused many a good girl to go wrong
— Answer song to Hank Thompson's "The Wild Side of Life"
— Kitty Wells, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" (written by J. D. Miller)
I met a gin soaked, bar-room queen in Memphis, She tried to take me upstairs for a ride. She had to heave me right across her shoulder 'Cause I just can't seem to drink you off my mind. It's the honky tonk women Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues.
— The Rolling Stones, "Honky Tonk Woman"
I walked into a honky tonk just the other day. I put a nickel in the jukebox just to hear it play.
— "Juke Box Blues", written by Maybelle Carter and Helen Carter, famously sung by June Carter Cash
