You're uptown tonight where all the bright lights glow

Where all the honky tonks with wine and music flow

And I've been walking with these blues since then down

Looking for you on the lonely side of town

I can see the lights of town from where I stand

Now I know you're having fun and holding hand

I knew tonight when you never came around

That you had left me on the lonely side of town

[ steel - fiddle ]

Thought the life they live up there has lured your heart

To where they dance and slip around till after dark

Now the wild life and the pretty girls you found

And you left me on the lonely side of town

I wish I could be uptown with you tonight

For I'm afraid that you found someone new you like

Now I don't want to give away my wedding gown and be left on the lonely side of town