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Box #10
By Jim Croce
From: Alfredo Alex G. General
Date: Thursday, October 25, 2006
Chords by Alfredo Alex G. General
Intro: C-G-Am-F-C-G-G7-C-G
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
Refrain:
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
Repeat refrain
End chords: C – Em – Am - Am/G – F – G - C