Box #10 Lyrics - Down The Highway - Jim Croce

Well, out of Southern Illinois 

Come a down home country boy 

He 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 

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But 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 

Oh, 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 as 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 

And 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 

Oh, I'll be back on my feet again 

Send it in care of the Sunday Mission 

Box number ten