Ain't No Place For A Country Boy (Songs Of Rodeo Life, 1977)
I pack my clothes in a cardboard box and mama packed my lunch I walk down to the highway and caught a trailways bus I woke up in the city stepped down on the curb 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 keep 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 brought Some man paid me ten dollars for grandpa's pocket watch I got off the trailways bus, the same place I got on My head is full of memories, 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 no place for me.