She moved up to the city   Became a big time fashion designer   All them big shots wined and dined her   In those fancy restaurants      She came back to our hometown   Pulled up in a brand new Lexus   Looks like our little girl from Texas   Had joined the upper echelon      And she walked through the door   In her jeans and her boots   Stepped right back into her tonkin' roots   'Neath the neon lights we raised the roof   Way into the night      Now, you can take the girl out   Of the honky-tonk   Into that uptown world   But she's still my little good timin'   Beer drinkin', pool shootin'   Honky-tonk, girl      Once upon another time   Before she moved to The Big Apple   Wedding bells were gonna ring in a country chapel   For me and my down-home debutante      Said, she missed what we had   And though she made a darn good livin'   Money couldn't buy what she'd been missin'   Yeah, that girl knows what she wants      And she walked through the door   In her jeans and her boots   Stepped right back into her tonkin' roots   'Neath the neon lights we raised the roof   Way into the night      Now, you can take the girl out   Of the honky-tonk   Into that uptown world   But she's still my little good timin'   Beer drinkin', pool shootin'   Honky-tonk girl      Well, you can take the girl out   Of the honky-tonk   Into that uptown world   But she's still my little good timin'   Beer drinkin', pool shootin'   Honky-tonk girl, honky-tonk girl