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 trails ways bus

i woke up in the city stepped down on the curb

and 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 nineteen dollars stuck way down in my shoe

it cost me seven fifty 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. i didn't even bother to unpack the clothes that i brought

some man paid me ten dollars for grandpas pocket watch

i got off the trails ways bus the same place i got on

my head is full of memories walkin' down the road to home

it ain't no place.