City girls are mighty fine Lord to show style Sweet perfume and fancy clothes Sexy paint smile I'll tell you how they love you Now they yearn for quiet nights But take them home and pretty soon They'll miss those city lights City lights How they'll miss the city lights The star sky would never really do City lights How we'll meet those city lights And there's nothing a poor country boy can do I woke up and I reached for her To find that she had gone She left a note addressed to me It wasn't very long I love you darling billy And I'll think of you each night But your world's just too far from mine And I miss those city lights City lights I miss those city lights The light's sky will never really do City lights I need no city lights And there's nothing A poor country boy can do