City Boys-Patti Scialfa

[ti:City Boys] [ar:Patti Scialfa] [al:23rd Street Lullaby] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.50]City Boys - Patti Scialfa [00:02.19] [00:12.66]My auntie mabel [00:14.15]1953 [00:15.38] [00:16.05]Left her minnesota dirt farm [00:17.66] [00:18.30]See what she could see [00:19.92]In a letter to her mother [00:22.06]Telling her what [00:23.59]She enjoyed [00:25.27] [00:27.78]Said there's nothing in [00:28.99]Whole wide world [00:30.64] [00:31.72]Like a city boy [00:32.91] [00:36.68]1987 [00:37.50] [00:38.22]Took daddy's cadillac [00:39.78] [00:40.36]I drove it to Chicago [00:41.92] [00:42.48]Never brought it back [00:44.22]Well all these years later [00:45.74] [00:46.98]I'm still unemployed [00:49.65] [00:51.28]Oh well there's nothing [00:53.14]In the whole wide world [00:55.30] [00:55.83]Like a city boy [00:56.92] [01:00.76]My granddaddy [01:01.85] [01:02.38]Had long grey hair [01:03.89] [01:04.56]Silver cane and [01:06.50]A rocking chair [01:07.93] [01:08.65]Tapped that cane [01:10.42]On a wooden floor [01:12.39]Saying take what you're given [01:14.40]And then ask for more [01:16.03] [01:16.76]Well I am baby [01:18.39]What do you think no that [01:20.15] [01:20.85]Can you make a woman [01:22.13] [01:22.68]Out of an alley cat [01:24.04] [01:24.59]Can you take the agitation [01:26.03] [01:27.16]And not get annoyed [01:29.81] [01:31.71]Oh well there's nothing [01:33.20]In the whole wide world [01:35.11] [01:36.30]Like a city boy [01:37.41] [01:49.10]Now my auntie mabel [01:50.80]She plays the dominoes [01:53.31]Way down south [01:54.68]Where the yucca plant grows [01:56.73]Drinking whiskey out of coca cola [01:59.22]Bottles smoking viceroys [02:02.49] [02:03.71]Still swears there's nothing [02:05.52]In the whole wide world [02:07.58] [02:08.46]Like a city boy [02:09.95] [02:12.26]Still swears there's nothing [02:13.65]In the whole wide world [02:16.40]Like a city boy [02:18.24] [02:20.11]Those city boys [02:21.98] [02:23.62]Those city boys [02:26.19] [02:27.65]Those city boys