Box 10

[Intro] C  G  Am
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        G7  C  G

           C            G
Well out of Southern Illinois
       Am                F
Come a down-home country boy
           C
He’s gonna make it in the city
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Playin’ guitar in the studio
            C                   
Oh well, he hadn’t been there an 
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hour
        Am             F
When he met a Broadway flower
             C
You know she took him for his money
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And she left him in a cheap hotel
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              C               G
Oh well, it’s easy for you to see
          Am             F
That that country boy is me
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        C                        
Say and how am I gonna ever break 
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the news to the folks back home?
            C                G
Well, I was gonna be a great success
            Am           F  C
Things sure ended up a mess
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But in the process I got messed up 
F  C  G
too

[Estribillo]

       C                     F 
Hello, mama and dad I had a call 
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collect
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Cause I ain’t got a cent to my 
Am/G
name
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Well, I’m sleepin’ in a hotel 
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doorway
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And tonight they say it’s gonna rain
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And if you’d only send me some 
    Am/G
money
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I’ll be back on my feet again
C          Em           Am
Send it in care of the Sunday 
      Am/G
Mission
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Box Number Ten
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              C            G
Well, back in Southern Illinois
               Am                  
They’re still worryin' 'bout their 
F   C
boy
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But this boy’s goin’ home soon’s he
          F   C  G
 gets the fare
           C                G
Because as soon as I got my bread
        Am             F
I got a pipe upside my head
              C
You know they left me in an alley
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Took my money and my guitar too

[Estribillo]

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