The Wild Side of Life

(William Warren - Arlie A. Carter)

Waylon & Jessi



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.



--- Instrumental ---



As I sit here tonight the jukebox's playin'

A song bout the wild side of life

As I listen to the words you are sayin'

It brings mem'ries 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 single

And it haunts a million poor girls to go wrong.



It wasn't God who made honky tonk angels

I might have known you'd never make a wife

Too many times married men think they're single

And go back to the wild side of life.



They go back to the wild side of life...