Box #10-Tom Swift

[ti:Box #10] [ar:Tom Swift] [al:Time in a Bottle: A Tribute to the Best Songs of Jim Croce] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Box #10 - Tom Swift [00:12.37]Well out of southern Illinois [00:15.20]Come a down-home country boy [00:17.89]He gonna make it in the city [00:19.73]Playin' guitar in the studio [00:21.03] [00:23.82]Well he hadn't been there an hour [00:26.73]When he met a Broadway flower [00:29.40]You know she took him for his money [00:31.09]And she left him in a cheap hotel [00:35.34]Well it's easy for you to see [00:37.20] [00:38.06]That that country boy was me [00:40.97]Say and how am I ever gonna [00:42.73]Break the news to the folks back home [00:46.76]I was gonna be a great success [00:48.38] [00:49.68]Things sure ended up a mess [00:53.23]But in the process I got messed up too [00:58.07]Hello momma and dad I had to call collect [01:01.12]'Cause I ain't got a cent to my name [01:04.11]Well I'm sleepin' in a hotel doorway [01:06.91]And tonight they say it's gonna rain [01:09.51]And if you'd only send me some money [01:12.68]I'll be back on my feet again [01:15.85]Send it in care of the Sunday Mission [01:18.76]Box Number Ten [01:26.94]Well back in southern Illinois [01:29.93]They still worryin' 'bout their boy [01:33.53]But this boy's goin' home [01:35.02]As soon as he gets the fare [01:36.18] [01:38.64]Because the minute I got my bread [01:41.41]I got a pipe upside my head [01:44.29]You know they left me in an alley [01:45.86]Took my money and my guitar too [01:49.76]Hello momma and dad I had to call collect [01:52.86]'Cause I ain't got a cent to my name [01:55.83]Well I'm sleepin' in a hotel doorway [01:58.52]And tonight they say it's gonna rain [02:01.19]And if you'd only send me some money [02:04.29]I'll be back on my feet again [02:07.15]Send it in care of the Sunday Mission [02:10.46]Box Number Ten