He said, "Please come to Boston for the springtime
I'm staying here with some friends and they've got lots of room
You can sell your paintings on the sidewalk
By a cafe where I hope to be working soon
Please come to Boston"
I said "No
Boy, would you come home to me."
I said, "Rambling boy, why don't ya settle down?
Boston ain't your kind of town
There ain't no gold and there ain't nobody like me
I'm the number one fan of a man from Tennessee
He said, "Please come to Denver, where the snow falls
We'll move up into the mountains so far, we can't be found
And throw "I love you" echoes down on the canyon
And then lie awake at night until they come back around
Please come to Denver
I just said "No
Boy, won't you come home to me."
And I said, "Rambling boy, why don't you settle down?
Denver ain't your kind of town
There ain't no gold and there ain't nobody like me
I'm the number one fan of a man from Tennessee
Now that drifter's world goes 'round and 'round,
And I doubt if it's ever gonna stop
But of all the dreams he's lost or found
And all that I ain't got
He still needs to lean into
Somebody he can sing to
He said, "Please come to L.A. to live forever
The California life alone is just too hard to bear
I live in a house that looks out over the ocean
And there's some stars that fell from the sky, living up on the hill
Please come to L.A."
I just said "No
Boy, won't you come home to me."
And I said, "Rambling boy, why don't you settle down?
L.A. can't be your kind of town
There ain't no gold and there ain't nobody like me
I'm the number one fan of a man from Tennessee
I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee