[Intro]
  

[Verse 1]
             
She was just a

        
 country girl
             
Didn't have th

            
ose New York C

    
ity ways
              
When she hoppe

    
d a bus in Ohi

o
             
Headin' for th

             
e crowded stre

             
ets where no o

                
ne says a word

[Verse 2]
             
She was just a

            
 country girl 

             
living in the 

      
lonely city
             
Met a man who 

           
learned her na

me
             
She became a w

             
oman on a rain

          
y New York nig

ht

[Chorus]

There's a new 

day dawnin' in

 the city
             
She calls her 

     
Mama collect
             
Sayin', "Mama 

             
send bus fare 

back to Ohio
             
Have somebody 

              
meet me at the

         
 depot"

[Verse 3]
             
She was just a

  
 country girl
             
Spent some tim

             
e in New York 


City
             
Now she tells 

             
her friends ab

             
out lonely New

      
 York City
             
And her lonely

              
 New York nigh

  
t

[Chorus]

There's a new 

day dawnin' in

 the city
             
She calls her 

     
Mama collect
             
Sayin', "Mama 

              
send bus fare 

       
back to Ohio
              
Have somebody 

             
meet me at the

           
 depot"

[Outro]
             
She was just a

        
 country girl
             
She was just a

              
 country girl