Well, you wouldn't read my letter if I wrote youYou asked me not to call you on the phoneBut there's something I've been waiting for to tell youSo I wrote it in the words of this songWell, the cover of the day-night limelight showed youTo the places where the wine and liquor flowWhen you went to be somebody else's babyAnd forget the truest love you've ever knownI never knew there were honky-tonk angelsOh, I might have known you'd never make a wifeNow, you gave up the only one who could ever love youAnd went back to that wild side of life. . .Well, the cover of the day-night limelight showed youTo the places where the wine and liquor flowWhen you went to be somebody else's babyAnd forget the truest love you've ever knownI never knew there were honky-tonk angelsOh, I might have known you'd never make a wifeYou gave up the only one that ever loved youAnd went back to that wild side of lifeI never knew there were honky-tonk angelsOh, I might have known you'd never make a wifeYou gave up the only one that ever loved youAnd went back to that wild side of lifeI never knew there were honky-tonk angelsOh, I might have known you'd never make a wifeYou gave up the only one that ever loved you