Honky tonk

Honky tonk is a genre of country music.

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 * The honk-a-tonk last night was well attended by ball heads, bachelors and leading citizens.
 * The Daily Ardmorite (Oklahoma), February 27, 1894


 * It was moaned by resonant moaners in honky tonks of the southwest.
 * Speaking of a song
 * Carl Sandburg, Songbag, 1927


 * "This place ain't no damn honkatonk, stranger," reproved the bar-tender... "Folks get throwed outa here sometimes."
 * C. E. Mulford, Deputy Sheriff, 1930


 * Its master whose anonymous dust lay with that of his blood and of the progenitors of saxophone players in Harlem honky-tonks.
 * Speaking of a dog
 * William Faulkner, Hamlet, 1940


 * Honky-tonks, restaurants and whore-houses.
 * John Steinbeck, Cannery Row, 1945


 * These honkey-tonks ran wide open twenty-four hours a day... Their attendance was some of the lowest caliber women in the world and their intake was the revenue from the little, pitiful gambling games they operated.
 * Jelly Roll Morton; quoted in


 * I didn't know God made honky tonk angels I might have known you'd never make a wife You gave up the only one that ever loved you and went back to the wild side of life
 * Hank Thompson, "The Wild Side of Life"


 * It wasn't God who made honky tonk angels As you said in the words of your song Too many times married men think they're still single That has caused many a good girl to go wrong
 * Answer song to Hank Thompson's "The Wild Side of Life"
 * Kitty Wells, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" (written by J. D. Miller)


 * I met a gin soaked, bar-room queen in Memphis, She tried to take me upstairs for a ride. She had to heave me right across her shoulder 'Cause I just can't seem to drink you off my mind. It's the honky tonk women Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues.
 * The Rolling Stones, "Honky Tonk Woman"


 * I walked into a honky tonk just the other day. I put a nickel in the jukebox just to hear it play.
 * "Juke Box Blues", written by Maybelle Carter and Helen Carter, famously sung by June Carter Cash