I wanted to write a song about that fine line in a honky tonk
where you're either miserable and down or your there havin' 
the time of your life. This is medium paced, maybe you can
figure it out. There are pauses at the commas.
Let me know what you think.   
 
Honky Tonk Heaven and Hell  -  Rich Arnold  16 Feb 2005 
Intro – E A E   B7 A E 
      E          A                              E 
It’s late, I’m alone, In a bar filled with strangers 
B7                          E 
Guilt pushes my soul to dangers 
          E              A                                    E 
I look around, and I’ve found, it’s heartache that fills the well 
      B7                      A                      E 
Lord, I’ve got to find a way out of this honky-tonk hell 
 
 
A line of fools, on a line of stools, prayin’ they still have time 
 
Prayin’ to the whiskey and the wine 
 
There I am, fallin’ down, that same old worn out trail 
 
Lord, I’ve got to find a way out of this honky-tonk hell 
 
 
Chorus 
 A                                   E 
And I know in this hell there’s a heaven 
 A                                       E 
Where the neon lights always shine so bright 
 A                                E 
The line is so very thin between them 
       B7                               E 
But findin’ heaven sometimes takes all night 
 
 
Don’t you see, how it can be, here in these honky-tonks 
 
One man’s in his heaven, the other’s in hell 
 
It could be, right here, right here beside me 
 
I’ve got to find it before I go to hell 
 
 
Some believe, it can be, left all behind you 
 
All you gotta do is walk out that door 
 
But I know, if I go, I won’t ever find it 
 
That heaven that I’ve been lookin’ for 
 
Chorus

Outro
 
B7                 A                    E 
But findin’ heaven sometimes takes all night