From: ed [email protected]
Box #10
Well out of southern Illinois come a down home country boy
He gonna make it in the city playin’ guitar in the studio
Well he ain’t been there an hour, when he met a
Broadway flower
You she took him for his money and she left him
in a cheap hotel
Oh well it’s easy for you to see, that that
country boy is me
Say and how am I ever gonna break the news to the folks
back home
Well I was gonna be a great success
Things sure ended up a mess
But in the process I got messed up too
CHORUS:
Hello Momma and Dad I had to call collect
Cause I aint got a cent to my name
Well I’m sleepin in the hotel doorway
And tonight they say it’s gonna rain
And if you’d only send me some money
I’ll be back on my feet again
Send it in care of the Sunday Mission
Box number ten.
Well, back in southern Illinois,
They’re still worryin’ ’bout their boy
But this boy’s goin’ home soon’s he gets the fare
Because as soon as I got my bread,
I gotta pipe upside my head
You know they left me in an alley
Took my money and my guitar too.
(repeat chorus)
