Wild Side Of Life Lyrics - Ernest Tubb

Well, you wouldn't read my letters if I wrote you 

You asked me not to call you on the phone 

There's something I've been waiting for to tell you 

So I wrote it in the words of this song 

You never knew there were honky tonk angels 

Or you might have known I'd never make a wife 

You walked out on the only one who ever loved you 

So I went back to the wild side of life 

Now the glamor of the good life always lead me 

To the places where the wild liquor flows 

I tried to be your one and only angel 

But I'm not that kind of angel, heaven knows 

I cried so hard the day you went and left me 

'Cause some things you said, they cut me like a knife 

What you wanted was another kind of angel 

And you should be back to the wild side of life 

No, well, I guess I'm just a honky tonk angel 

I might have known I'd never make a wife 

Well, you left the only one who ever loved you 

And I'm back here on the wild side of life 

I'm only a honky tonk angel 

I might have known I'd never make a wife 

You walked out on the only one who ever loved you 

And you left me here on the wild side of life