I'm just a bartender
I don't like my work
I don't mind the money at all
I see lots of sad faces
And lots of bad cases
Of folks with their backs to the wall

I need four walls around me to hold my life
To keep me from going astray
A honky-tonk angel to hold me tight
To keep me from slipping away

I can light up your smokes
And I'll laugh at your jokes
And I'll watch you fall down on your knees
Close down this bar
Gas up my car
Pack up and mail in my key

I need four walls around me to hold my life
To keep me from going a-stray
A honky-tonk angel to hold me tight
To keep me from slipping away

The smoke fills the air
In this honky-tonk bar
And I'm thinking about where I'd rather be
Yeah
But I sunk all my bridges
I burned all my boats
I'm stranded at the edge of the sea
Yeah

I need four walls around me to hold my life
To keep me from going astray
A honky-tonk angel to hold me tight
To keep me from slipping away

I need four walls around me to hold my life
To keep me from going astray
A honky-tonk angel to hold me tight
To keep me from slipping away

• A Heart in New York
• American Tune
• Another on The Rise
• Baby Don't You Break My Heart Slow
• Bartender's Blues
• Beauty to Disaster
• Blister in The Sun
• Blood Quantum
• Carolina in My Mind
• Carry Me Away
• Chiapas Bound
• Christmastime in Washington
• Clampdown
• Clues to You
• Cold as Ice
• Come Down in Time
• Cortez The Killer
• Country Road
• Cowgirl in The Sand
• Daddy's All Gone
• Dancing Shoes
• Danny's Song
• Devotion
• Don't Give up on Me Baby
• Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
• Draw The Line
• Drift Away
• Everybody's Waiting
• Falling Star
• Father & Son
• Finlandia
• Fire & Rain
• Forgiveness
• Free Through Eternity
• Girls Talk
• Go Go Go
• Goodnight Irene
• Half Moon Cafe
• Heartache Central Time
• Her Town Too
• High Horse
• Holy City
• House at Pooh Corner
• I Don't Know Your Name
• I Don't Wanna Talk About It
• I Shall Be Released
• I'll Be There
• I'll Give You My Skin
• If You Live Like That
• It Won't Take Long
• It's Too Late
• Jacob's Ladder/this Train Revised
• Johnny Rottentale
• Junkie's Lament
• Just Passing Time
• Killing Time
• Knockin' on Heaven's Door
• Leaving
• Letter to Eve
• Life's So Strange
• Lifeblood
• Lincoln Duncan
• Little Darling
• Long Ago & Far Away
• Losing Touch
• Love by You
• Love of The Common People
• Love The One You're With
• Make This House a Home
• Malachy's
• Measure of Me
• Melissa
• Mona Lisas & Mad Hatters
• Never Stop
• No Way Out
• No Way to Treat a Friend
• Peace Song
• Philosophy of Loss
• Play It Again Sam
• Please Call Me, Baby
• Pretty Vision
• Problem Child
• Redemption Song
• Rock Me on The Water
• Rockin' in The Free World
• Running from The Cold
• Should Have Never Crossed Your Path
• Slow Moving Sea
• Southern Man
• Summer, Highland Falls
• Summertime
• Sweet Gypsy
• The Ballad of Squeaky Fromme
• The Distance Remains The Same
• The Hard Way
• The Mountain Top
• The Untitled Song
• The Water is Wide
• The Weakness in Me
• Thursday Afternoon
• Tuesday's Children
• Uncle John's Band
• Up in Smoke
• Up on The Roof
• Walking Through Fire
• White House Blues
• Wild Horses
• Wild Wild Party in The Loquat Tree
• Winthrop
• Wish You Were Here
• Wysteria