Country Honk    (video)

 

    G - C - G - D - G

 

           G                                             C

1. I'm sittin' in a bar, tippling a jar in Jackson,

            G                         A                      D

    and on the street the summer sun it shines.

                    G                                                   C

    There's many a barroom queen I've had in Jackson,

             G                            D                       G

    but I just can't seem to drink you off my mind.

 

                   G - D               G

It's those ho.......nky tonk women,

  G                      D                                  G

gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues !

 

       G                                          C

2. I laid a divorcee in New York City,

        G                   A                     D

    I had to put up some kind of a fight.

            G                                             C

    The lady she all dressed me up in roses,

             G                            D                          G

    she blew my nose and then she blew my mind.

 

+ CHORUS    +  instrumental = verse 2

 

+ CHORUS (2x)

 

    (The Rolling Stones)