From Hillbilly Heaven to Honky Tonk Hell

(Michael Huffman/Woody Mullis/Mike Geiger)

Album: Kennt Chesney - I Will Stand (1997), Track 7

Kenny Chesney, George Jones & Tracy Lawrence



On a hillside in Hazzard

Sets a new double-wide

God's little acre

Your paradise.



A poor boy found heaven

With a good country girl

He had all he wanted

She was his whole world.



But working the coal mine

Can wear a man down

He started spending

Too much time in town.



He found temptation

Fell under it's spell

And hillbilly heaven

Went to honky tonk hell.



From hillbilly heaven

To honky tonk hell

From a warm home fire burning

To a cold, cheap motel.



And an angel is crying

'Cause her good man fell

From hillbilly heaven

To honky tonk hell.



Somewhere in Hazzard

On a dark, dead-end street

Where whiskey and heartache

And old memories meet.



He looks for salvation

In a bottle each night

And just goes on livin'

Though he's lost his life.



Now there's a job in the coal mine

That needs to be filled

And a heartache in Hazzard

That won't ever heal.



He had it all

Now it's all for sale

And hillbilly heaven's

Gone to honky tonk hell.



From hillbilly heaven

To honky tonk hell

From a warm home fire burning

To a cold, cheap motel.



And an angel is crying

'Cause her good man fell

From hillbilly heaven

To honky tonk hell.



He's gone from hillbilly heaven

To honky tonk hell...