HONKY TONK SONG
(Mel Tillis / A R Peddy)

as recorded by Webb Pearce
1957


I got me a room in a cheap hotel,
My head was a spinnin' and I didn't feel well.
I laid right down and tried to go to sleep,
A band kept a-playin' in a joint underneath.
I picked up my pillow and I covered up my head,
But the band kept a-playin' and a-shakin' my bed!

Honky tonk, all night long,
Honky tonk, same old song.
Honky tonk, my money's all gone,
Honky tonk, she done me wrong.
I turned and I tossed and I couldn't go to sleep,
'Cause the band kept a-playin' with a honky tonk beat!

Well I'm so blue, my baby's gone,
She took all my money and left me all alone.
I'm tryin' to forget her but I don't know what to do,
The honky tonk song keeps a-leakin' through.
I picked up my pillow and I covered up my head,
But the band keeps a playin' and a-shakin' my bed!

Honky tonk, all night long,
Honky tonk, same old song.
Honky tonk, my money's all gone,
Honky tonk, she done me wrong.
I turned and I tossed and I couldn't go to sleep,
'Cause the band keeps a playin' with a honky tonk beat!




(Transcribed by Peter Akers - November 2018)