Don't Trade Your Old Fashioned Sweetheart (For a Honky Tonk Queen)

Don't Trade Your Old Fashioned Sweetheart (For A Honky Tonk Queen) - Ernest Tubb

Take away the bright lights and music

Take away the power and pain

And you'll find that a honky tonk angel

Can't compare with your home loving saint

She's just another woman

Who'll never make a home

She's had sweethearts before you

She'll have others when you're gone

Don't trade one who loves you

For the bright lights that gleam

Don't trade your old fashioned sweetheart

For a honky tonk queen

She'll lie and she'll cry on your shoulder

And she'll speek of a broken romance

She'll say that things might have been different take pitty

But don't take a chance

Don't take a cheap imitation

When you have a real pearl

Don't take this hard hearted woman

For your old fashioned girl

Don't trade one who loves you

For the bright lights that gleam

Don't trade your old fashioned sweetheart

For a honky tonk queen