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           C            G 
Well outta Southern Illinois 
       Am                F 
Come a down-home country boy 
           C 
He’s gonna make it in the city 
        G                 F  C  G 
Playin’ guitar in the studio 
            C                    G 
Oh well, he hadn’t been there an hour 
        Am             F 
When he met a Broadway flow’r 
             C 
You know she took him for his money 
        G                     F   C  G 
And she left him in a cheap hotel 
              C               G 
Oh well, it’s easy for you to see 
          Am             F 
That that country boy is me 
        C                            G                      F    C  G 
Say and how’m I gonna ever break the news to the folks back home? 
            C                G 
Well, I was gonna be a great success 
            Am           F  C 
Things sure ended up a mess 
                   G               F  C  G 
But in the process I got messed up to 


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       C                     F        G 
Hello, mama and dad I had to call collect 
        C           Em       Am   Am/G 
Cause I ain’t got a cent to my name 
          C                   F 
Well, I’m sleepin’ in a hotel doorway 
       D                        G 
And tonight they say it’s gonna rain 
             C      Em         Am    Am/G 
And if you’d only send me some money 
           C      Em    Am    Am/G 
I’ll be back on my feet again 
C          Em           Am      Am/G 
Send it in care of the Sunday Mission 
F          C    C  Em  Am  Am/G  F  G6  C 
Box Number Ten 


              C            G 
Well, back in Southern Illinois 
               Am                  F   C 
They’re still worryin” ‘bout their boy 
                     G                       F   C  G 
But this boy’s goin’ home soon’s he gets the fare 
           C                G 
Because as soon as I got my bread 
        Am             F 
I got a pipe upside my head 
              C 
You know they took me in an alley 
        G                   F   C  G 
Took my money and my guitar too 

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