Tonk Poems - Poems about Tonk

A voice of gravel wrapped in velvet Bringing a warmth to every song, Laid back and gentle as Every track moved along. He looked so tall and lanky in Photographs of his early years With the trade mark white Stetson Perched so precisely above his ears. Rainbow at Midnight Walking the Floor Over You Have You Ever Been Lonely Filipino Baby, Seaman’s Blues Somewhere in every track I...

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...Janet’s eyes went wide at the words, Edna said,”It was so tragic. Steve would come dance on Friday nights, with the girls he worked his magic. He met a woman that that dark night, had no idea she was a wife. Her husband came up, in a rage, found them in her car, ‘at play.’ “He smashed the window with a gun, they say...

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Janet went down to the honky-tonk for some line-dancing and some beer, down to a joint called ‘Edna Mae’s,’ she always had a good time here. Old Edna, tattooed, worked the bar, three bikers player pool, one guy scarred, a country band played Hank up front, soon her first beer Janet had drunk. She joined in with all the dancers and did soon find...

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Sittin' in a honky tonk he'd just turned forty two Scratched the label off a beer he'd nothin' else to do Thought about his life 'til now - he'd just turned middle age Coulda done some better things if money was the guage There were things that he would change and some he could forget But he knew it was...

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A Honky Tonk Piano I woke up all alone My money was all gone but I didn’t feel like cryin’ any tears A redhead I would guess Got me into this mess A honky tonk piano’s in my ears. I remember dancin’ Nothin’ ‘bout romancin’ Prob’ly left my money on the bar That seems more than likely My eyes ain’t so slightly Been drinkin’ my share of...

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When cowboys sprawl 'round the camp fire after the days work is done, They strum guitars and tootle harmonicas and sing to have fun. Real cowboys don't sing Honky-Tonk or She Done Me Wrong stuff. They leave that to rhinestone cowboys, considerin' it to be so much fluff! Real wranglers sing about ropin' dogies and fixin' barbed wire fences, Roundups,...

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I have dreamed so many dreams of life in Texas Of cowboys and of the history I'd find there So many hours I have been driving but all I see are oil wells everywhere . Long dusty roads and lorries hauling Miles and miles of heavy industry but just as I felt my spirit falling A vision of...

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Your honky tonk don't cut it no more all this misery you put me through your whiskey breath, your cheatin ways a cowboy gone astray, too many chances & still you don't see so get ya boots on honey & be sure to close the door lovin you is over your bad boy days &...

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Lost… somewhere between that whiskey lullaby and His saving grace, I look in the mirror and I don’t know that face. Heaven or Hell, why can’t I choose? I know what’s at stake, I know what I’ll lose! But the lure of the lights are calling me back, While the power of the Cross is trying to keep me on...

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