Lyrics to
Honky Tonk Women

This version of Honky Tonk Women was released by Waylon Jennings in 1970.

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I met her, just a barroom queen in Memphis
She tried to make me upstairs for a ride
She had to carry me right across her shoulder
‘Cause I just can’t seem to drink her off of my mind
She’s a honky tonk woman
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme
Gimme, gimme the honky tonk girl.

I met her either say in New York City
I had to put up a one heck of a fight
The lady said she’d covered me with roses
She broke my nose and then she broke my mind.
She’s a honky tonk woman
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme
Gimme, gimme the honky tonk girl.

She’s a honky tonk woman
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme
Gimme, gimme the honky tonk girl.

She’s a honky tonk woman
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme
Gimme, gimme the honky tonk girl.

She’s a honky tonk woman
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme
Gimme, gimme the honky tonk girl…

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Honky Tonk Women, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1970 song by Waylon Jennings. Some of the lyrics to Honky Tonk Women have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Waylon Jennings and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Honky Tonk Women if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Honky Tonk Women" means the words set to the music of Honky Tonk Women, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Waylon Jennings. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Honky Tonk Women and the lyrics to Honky Tonk Women are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Waylon Jennings who came here looking just for the lyrics to Honky Tonk Women, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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