Spent a long, long evening in a honky-tonk bar  Pulled a low down lady with a long black honky-tonk car  I asked no questions, got no lies  I walked off with her, I didn’t want any ties  And I knew it wasn’t right  But everybody has to sometimes break the rules    Took me down on the highway doin’ too may miles an hour  By that way she motor-talked we might have made the Eiffel Tower  She stopped her motor by her own front door  I knew she’d done it so many times before  And I was offered the floor  But everybody has to sometimes break the rules    I woke up next morning feeling kind of up and down  ‘Cos I did not know if I was in or out of town  Then I saw the face from the night before  Purse was empty and lying there on the floor  But like I told you before  That everybody has to sometimes break the rules    Spent a low down evening sitting high on a honky-tonk stool  And I spent my money like a low down honky-tonk fool  But everybody has to sometimes break the rules