Box #10

Album: You Don't Mess Around With Jim (1972)
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  • Well, out of Southern Illinois come a down home country boy
    He's gonna make it in the city playin' guitar in the studio
    Oh well, he hadn't been there an hour, when he met a Broadway flower
    You know 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

    Hello Mama and Dad, I had to call collect
    'Cause I ain't 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 got a pipe upside my head
    You know they left me in an alley
    Took my money and my guitar, too

    Hello Mama and Dad, I had to call collect
    'Cause I ain't 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 Writer/s: JAMES CROCE
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
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