Don't put down the honky tonks until you been inside Some go to dance some go to drink and losers go to hide Darkness hides the heartaches each night until last call Don't put down the honky tonks until you try them all Pretty painted faces on every other stool And in between each painted face there sit a hardluck fool If you slip and stumble you don't have far to fall So don't put down the honky tonks until you try them all No don't put down the honky tonks they're homes for fools like me A place inside to run and hide and drown their misery I sacrificed the chance I had to heed the neon's call So don't put down the honky tonks until you try them all [ steel ] No don't put down the honky tonks... No don't put down the honky tonks until you try them all