Key: C
Introduction: C
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Well outta Southern Illinois
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Come a down-home country boy
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He’s gonna make it in the city
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Playin’ guitar in the studio
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Oh well, he hadn’t been there an hour
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When he met a Broadway flow’r
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You know she took him for his money
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And she left him in a cheap hotel
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Oh well, it’s easy for you to see
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That that country boy is me
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Say and how’m I gonna ever break the news to the folks back home?
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Well, I was gonna be a great success
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Things sure ended up a mess
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But in the process I got messed up to
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Hello, mama and dad I had to call collect
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Cause I ain’t got a cent to my name
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Well, I’m sleepin’ in a hotel doorway
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And tonight they say it’s gonna rain
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And if you’d only send me some money
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I’ll be back on my feet again
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Send it in care of the Sunday Mission
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Box Number Ten
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Well, back in Southern Illinois
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They’re still worryin” 'bout their boy
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But this boy’s goin’ home soon’s he gets the fare
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Because as soon as I got my bread
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I got a pipe upside my head
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You know they took me in an alley
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Took my money and my guitar too
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