Ain't No Place For A Country Boy

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 19 dollars stuffed way down in my shoe
It cost me 7.50 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