| G7 | G7 | C | C |

[Chorus]
        F                       C
I'm the mother, of a honky tonk girl
      G7                             C      C7
And I die, when they speak my babies name
  F                      C
I hope that God, will forgive me
    G7                      C
For now, I know that I'm to blame

[Verse 1]
                   F
Excuse me friends, for intruding this way, but there's something, I've just got to say
C                                                           G7
  I remember this girl, they're whispering about, just like it was yesterday
                                                  C
When she was small they'd bring her in the tavern and set her on a stool
C                                             F
And give her a drink of their beer and laugh, I thought, oh, you crazy fools
               C                                      G7
But what could I do, or what could I say?  I'm just a bar tender and work here for my pay
                        C
And I could cry, when I hear a mother say:

[Chorus]
        F                       C
I'm the mother, of a honky tonk girl
      G7                             C      C7
And I die, when they speak my babies name
  F                      C
I hope that God, will forgive me
    G7                      C
For now, I know that I'm to blame

[Verse 2]
F                                                       C
You probably wonder why, I chose to condemn the stuff I sell
                                                 G7
But I've seen the hurt it's caused and the souls it's sent to hell
                              C
Once we're on the wrong road, will temptation let us turn 'round?
                                         F
Like the girl they're all talkin' 'bout,  the one they're all runnin' down
                      C
Instead of giving her a drink of beer, where angels have never trod
G7                                               C
They should have given her a taste of love, yes, and a taste of God

[Outro]
  F                      C
I hope, that God will forgive me
        G7                      C      C
I'm the mother, of a honky tonk girl