Checkered table cloths homemade ashtrays and neon lights
Advertisements that light up the night
Loud music smoke and laughter
Make me feel like a different man
And the honky tonks are calling me a-gain

Well the jukebox is playing and everyone is singing
Songs of dreams that have no end
Life is just an illusion there in the confusion
And the honky tonks are calling me a-gain

Lord I’ve tried to break away to a better kind of life
Oh but a good woman’s love can only hold me for a while
Yes the church bells ring on Sunday
Oh but that old Devil he just grins
And the honky tonks are calling me a-gain