Honky Tonkin’ Lifestyle
By BR549
Written By C. Scruggs
CD: Tangled In The Pines - 2004
Tabbed By Larry Mofle
rmofle at satx.rr.com
1/1/2005


    D
I’m out till four and I’m up at six
    D             A
And when I wake I have a fix
   A                              D
To try and cure the morning after blues
   D
To help me make it through the day
   D               G
So I can drink the night away
     A
That honky tonkin’ lifestyle
     A               D
Will get the best of you


I pay my fare and get on the bus
Cause I lost my keys and I drink too much
The only money I have’s in my shoe
I hear the words roll through my head
That my folks and the preacher said
That honky tonkin’ lifestyle
Will get the best of you


Well I drink and drink
And drink and drink some more
And though I feel high as a kite
I’m laying on the floor
My friends tell me to lose the booze
And then they  read the same old news
That honky tonkin’ lifestyle
Will get the best of you


I dance, drink liquor, beer and wine
I try to have a happy time
But by the time I’m thirty I’ll be through
I try to turn to God and pray
But when I do I hear him say
That honky tonkin’ lifestyle
Will get the best of you