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


(copyright Dallas Frazier)