I've Always Been Honky Tonk Crazy

Keith Whitley

Written by Dean Dillon and Frank Dycus

Key of C · Chords: I II IV V VI

Verse 1

G7    C                     F             D7
Woman you better get up and run while you can
      G7                    C        G7
Don't waste your sweet time loving me
    C                         F            D7
Yes darling to think that I'm your kind of man
          G7                       C
There's a danger in love you can't see

Verse 2

     F           A7         D7
I've always been honky tonk crazy
    F              G7        C
I'm someone that's best left alone
      F          A7         D7
Cause when I get honky tonk crazy
  F         G7          C    G7
I only feel right doing wrong

Verse 3

     C                          F         D7
I'll take you and make you love smoky old bars
      G7                      C    G7
Cheap whiskey and sad country songs
        C                   F        D7
There's nothing left of the lady you are
    G7                           C
And then left you cryin' I'll be gone

Verse 4

     F           A7         D7
I've always been honky tonk crazy
    F              G7        C
I'm someone that's best left alone
      F          A7         D7
Cause when I get honky tonk crazy
  F         G7          C
I only feel right doing wrong

Verse 5

      F          A7         D7
Cause when I get honky tonk crazy
  F         G7          C
I only feel right doing wrong