Well Out Of Southern Illinois Come A Down Home Country Boy
He Gonna Make İt İn The City Playin' Guitar İn The Studio
Well He Hadn'T Been There An Hour, When He Met A Broadway Flower
You Know She Took Him For His Money And She Left Him İn A Cheap Hotel
Oh Well İt'S Easy For You To See That That Country Boy İs Me
Say And How Am I Ever Gonna Break The News To The Folks Back Home
Well I Was Gonna Be A Great Success
Things Sure Ended Up A Mess
But İn The Process I Got Messed Up Too

Chorus:
Hello Mamma And Dad I Had To Call Collect
'Cause I Ain'T Got A Cent To My Name
Well I'M Sleepin' İn The Hotel Doorway
And Tonight They Say İt'S Gonna Rain
And İf You'D Only Send Me Some Money
I'Ll Be Back On My Feet Again
Send İt İn Care Of The Sunday Mission
Box Number Ten

Well Back İn Southern Illinois They'Re Still Worryin' 'Bout Their Boy
But This Boy'S Goin' Home Soon'S He Get'S The Fare
Because As Soon As I Got My Bread
I Got A Pipe Upside My Head
You Know They Left Me İn An Alley
Took My Money And My Guitar, Too