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Intro: C-G-Am-F-C-G-G7-C-G

	C	G
Well outta	Southern Illi	nois

	Am	F
Come a	down-home country	boy

	C
He's gonna	make it in the city

	G	F-C-G
Playin'	guitar in the stud	io

	C	G
Oh well, he	hadn't been there an	hour

	Am	F
When he	met a Broadway	flow'r

	C
You know she	took him for his money

	G	F	C-G
And she	left him in a cheap ho	tel

	C	G
Oh well, it's	easy for you to	see

	Am	F
That that	country boy is	me

	C	G	F	C-G
Say and	how'm I gonna ever break 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 me	ss

	G	F	C-G
But in the process	I got messed up	to

Refrain:

	C	F	G
Hello,	mama and dad I had to	call coll	ect

	C	Em	Am	Am/G
Cause I	ain't got a	cent to m	y nam	e

	C	F
Well, I'm	sleepin' in a hotel	doorway

	D	G
And ton	ight they say it's gonna	rain

	C	Em	Am	Am/G
And if you'd	only se	nd me some	money

	C	Em	Am	Am/G
I'll be bac	k on my	feet	again

	C	Em	Am	Am/G
	Send it in	care of the S	unday Mi	ssion

F          C    C-Em-Am-Am/G-F-G6-C

Box Number Ten

	C	G
Well, back in	Southern Illi	nois

	Am	F	C
They're still w	orryin bout their	boy

	G	F	C-G
But this boy's goin'	home soon's he 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	took me in an alley

	G	F	C-G
Took my	money and my guitar	too

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Box 10

Jim Croce

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