Intro: CGAmFCGG7CGCG
Well outta Southern Illinois
AmF
Come a down-home country boy
C
He?s gonna make it in the city
GFCG
Playin? guitar in the studio
CG
Oh well, he hadn?t been there an hour
AmF
When he met a Broadway flow?r
C
You know she took him for his money
GFCG
And she left him in a cheap hotel
CG
Oh well, it?s easy for you to see
AmF
That that country boy is me
CGFCG
Say and how?m I gonna ever break the news to the folks back home?
CG
Well, I was gonna be a great success
AmFC
Things sure ended up a mess
GFCG
But in the process I got messed up to
Refrão:
CFG
Hello, mama and dad I had to call collect
CEmAmAm/G
Cause I ain?t got a cent to my name
CF
Well, I?m sleepin? in a hotel doorway
DG
And tonight they say it?s gonna rain
CEmAmAm/G
And if you?d only send me some money
CEmAmAm/G
I?ll be back on my feet again
CEmAmAm/G
Send it in care of the Sunday Mission
FCCEmAmAm/GFG6C
Box Number Ten
CG
Well, back in Southern Illinois
AmFC
They?re still worryin? ?bout their boy
GFCG
But this boy?s goin? home soon?s he gets the fare
CG
Because as soon as I got my bread
AmF
I got a pipe upside my head
C
You know they took me in an alley
GFCG
Took my money and my guitar too
(Refrão)
( CEmAmAm/GFGC )
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