Intro: A B7 E
Verse
(Waylon)
E A
You wouldn't read my letter if I wrote you
B7 E
You asked me not to call you on the phone
A
But there's something I'm wanting to tell you
B7 E
So I wrote it in the words of this song
E A
I didn't know God made honky tonk angels
B7 E
I might have known you'd never make a wife
A
You gave up the only one who ever loved you
B7 E
And went back to the wild side of life
Verse
(Jessi)
D G
As I sit here tonight, the jukebox playin'
A7 D
Your song about the wild side of life
G
As I listen to the words you are sayin'
A7 D
It brings memories of when I was a trusting wife
D G
It wasn't God who made honky tonk angels
A7 D
As you say in the words of your song
G
Too many times married men think they're single
A7 D
And it's caused many a good girl to go wrong
D G
It wasn't God who made honky tonk angels
A7 D
I might have known you'd never make a wife
G
Too many times married men think they're single
A7 D
And go back to the wild side of life
A7 D A7 D
They go back to the wild side of life