Box #10
By Jim Croce

Chords by Alfredo Alex G. General

[Intro]
        

[Verse]
             
Well outta Sou

          
thern Illinois
            
Come a down-ho

           
me country boy
           
He’s gonna mak

e it in the ci

ty
             
Playin’ guitar

               
 in the studio
             
Oh well, he ha

              
dn’t been ther

     
e an hour
            
When he met a 

         
Broadway flow’

r
             
You know she t

ook him for hi

s money
             
And she left h

              
im in a cheap 

     
hotel
              
Oh well, it’s 

             
easy for you t

  
o see
            
That that coun

           
try boy is me
             
Say and how’m 

              
I gonna ever b

             
reak the news 

              
to the folks b

        
ack home?
             
Well, I was go

              
nna be a great

 
 success
            
Things sure en

             
ded up a mess
              
But in the pro

             
cess I got mes

         
sed up to

[Chorus]
             
Hello, mama an

              
d dad I had to

       
 call collect
             
Cause I ain’t 

             
got a cent to 

       
my name
          
Well, I’m slee

pin’ in a hote

l doorway
             
And tonight th

             
ey say it’s go

    
nna rain
             
And if you’d o

          
nly send me so

    
me money
             
I’ll be back o

         
n my feet agai

   
n
          
Send it in car

            
e of the Sunda

     
y Mission
           
Box Number Ten

      

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[Verse]
              
Well, back in 

            
Southern Illin

ois
              
They’re still 

        
worryin” ‘bout

              
 their boy
              
But this boy’s

             
 goin’ home so

              
on’s he gets t

       
he fare
             
Because as soo

              
n as I got my 


bread
            
I got a pipe u

         
pside my head
              
You know they 


left me in an 

alley
             
Took my money 

              
and my guitar 

    
too

[Chorus]
             
Hello, mama an

              
d dad I had to

       
 call collect
             
Cause I ain’t 

             
got a cent to 

       
my name
          
Well, I’m slee

pin’ in a hote

l doorway
             
And tonight th

             
ey say it’s go

    
nna rain
             
And if you’d o

          
nly send me so

    
me money
             
I’ll be back o

         
n my feet agai

   
n
          
Send it in car

            
e of the Sunda

     
y Mission
           
Box Number Ten

      

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