AIN'T NO PLACE FOR A COUNTRY BOY
(Bob Leftridge)


Chris LeDoux - 1971


I packed my clothes in a cardboard box and Mama packed my lunch
I walked down to the highway and caught a Trailways bus
I woke up in the city, stepped down on the kerb
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 kept 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'd brought
Some man paid me ten dollars for Grandpas pocket watch
I got off the Trailways bus the same place I got on
My head is full of mem'ries 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...............FADE







(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - May 2011)