Burl Ives - The wild side of life



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



CHORUS:

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



The glamour of the gay night life has lured you

To the places where the wine and liquor flows

Where you wait to be anybody's baby

And forget the truest love you'll ever know



REPEAT CHORUS