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• The honk-a-tonk last night was well attended by ball heads, bachelors and leading citizens.
  • The Daily Ardmorite (Oklahoma), February 27, 1894

• It was moaned by resonant moaners in honky tonks of the southwest.
  • Speaking of a song
  • Carl Sandburg, Songbag, 1927

• "This place ain't no damn honkatonk, stranger," reproved the bar-tender... "Folks get throwed outa here sometimes."
  • C. E. Mulford, Deputy Sheriff, 1930

• Its master whose anonymous dust lay with that of his blood and of the progenitors of saxophone players in Harlem honky-tonks.
  • Speaking of a dog
  • William Faulkner, Hamlet, 1940

• Honky-tonks, restaurants and whore-houses.
  • John Steinbeck, Cannery Row, 1945

• These honkey-tonks ran wide open twenty-four hours a day... Their attendance was some of the lowest caliber women in the world and their intake was the revenue from the little, pitiful gambling games they operated.
  • Jelly Roll Morton; quoted in
    
    • I didn't know God made honky tonk angels
      I might have known you'd never make a wife
      You gave up the only one that ever loved you
      and went back to the wild side of life
      • Hank Thompson, "The Wild Side of Life"
    
    
    • 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
      • Answer song to Hank Thompson's "The Wild Side of Life"
      • Kitty Wells, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" (written by J. D. Miller)
    
    
    • I met a gin soaked, bar-room queen in Memphis,
      She tried to take me upstairs for a ride.
      She had to heave me right across her shoulder
      'Cause I just can't seem to drink you off my mind.
      It's the honky tonk women
      Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues.
      • The Rolling Stones, "Honky Tonk Woman"
    
    
    • I walked into a honky tonk just the other day. I put a nickel in the jukebox just to hear it play.
      • "Juke Box Blues", written by Maybelle Carter and Helen Carter, famously sung by June Carter Cash