Ain't No Place For A Country Boy Lyrics - Chris Ledoux

I pack my clothes in a cardboard box and mama packed my lunch 

I walk down to the highway and caught a trailways bus 

I woke up in the city stepped down on the curb 

To the strangest lookin' people and sounds I've never heard 

It ain't no place for a country boy, it ain't no place to be 

It might be fine for a city boy but it ain't no place for me 

I keep my nineteen dollars, stuck way down in my shoe 

It cost me seven fifty for a dirty sleepin' room 

My window faced the alley and the city smells were strong 

I couldn't sleep for horns and sirens blowin' all night long 

It ain't no place for a country boy, it ain't no place to be 

It might be fine for a city boy but it ain't no place for me 

I didn't even bother to unpack the clothes that I brought 

Some man paid me ten dollars for grandpa's pocket watch 

I got off the trailways bus, the same place I got on 

My head is full of memories, walkin' down the road to home 

It ain't no place for a country boy, it ain't no place to be 

It might be fine for a city boy but it ain't no place for me 

It ain't no place for a country boy, it ain't no place to be 

It might be fine for a city boy but it ain't no place for me