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Her life also sounds dated: daughter of a railroad brakeman, married at 18, her husband died a month short of their 74th (!) anniversary. She died last summer only a few miles from where she was born.
Her commercial success was due in no small part to identifying with (and being identified with) the role that a woman was expected to take in America at that time. It's perhaps not surprising that her popularity waned as the attitudes about "Woman's Lib" waxed.
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels (Songwriter: J. D. "Jay" Miller)
As I sit here tonight the jukebox playin'
The tune about the wild side of life
As I listen to the words you are sayin'
It brings memories when I was a trusting wife
It wasn't God who made Honky Tonk angels
As you said in the words of your song
Too many times married men think they're still single
That has caused many a good girl to go wrong
It's a shame that all the blame is on us women
It's not true that only you men feel the same
From the start most every heart that's ever broken
Was because there always was a man to blame
It wasn't God who made Honky Tonk angels
As you said in the words of your song
Too many times married men think they're still single
That has caused many a good girl to go wrong
4 comments:
I will never not get a kick out of the fact that that song ended up being a bigger hit than the song it was written as a response to.
+1 on thesouth's comment! And she was one of the truly great ones!
I am thinking tonight of my blue eyed, Great-Speckled, wild side honky-tonk angel.
I love the Country-Western of that era.
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