It won't be long now, until that ol' sun gets down
   And up the stairs I hide, my shameful tears
  
   My wife works all night long, for a man who's halfway gone
   She's a barmaid in the honky tonk downstairs
  
   Bridge:
  
   And it's a shame she wears the name
   Of a man that's locked in chains
   To a bottle that destroys her hopes and cares
  
   To a man with hungry eye's, she works and hides her pride
   She's a barmaid in the honky tonk downstairs