• Song:

    Box 10

  • Artist:

    Jim Croce

  • Album:

    Bad, Bad Leroy Brown -T...

Box #10
By Jim Croce

From: Alfredo Alex G. General
Date: Thursday, October 25, 2006

Chords by Alfredo Alex G. General

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

           C (x32010@1)          GWell (320003@1)outta Southern Illinois
       Am (x02210@1)              FCome (133211@1)a down-home country boy
           C (x32010@1)                 
He's gonna make it in the city
        G (320003@1)               F-C-G
Playin' guitar in the studio
            C (x32010@1)                  GOh (320003@1)well, he hadn't been there an hour
        Am (x02210@1)           FWhen (133211@1)he met a Broadway flow'r
             C (x32010@1)                       
You know she took him for his money
        G (320003@1)                   F (133211@1) C-G
And she left him in a cheap hotel
              C (x32010@1)             GOh (320003@1)well, it's easy for you to see
          Am (x02210@1)           F (133211@1)
That that country boy is me   
        C (x32010@1)                          G (320003@1)                    F (133211@1)  C-G
Say and how'm I gonna ever break the news to the folks back home?
            C (x32010@1)              GWell, (320003@1)I was gonna be a great success
            Am (x02210@1)         F (133211@1)CThings (x32010@1)sure ended up a mess
                   G (320003@1)             F (133211@1)C-G
But in the process I got messed up to

Refrain: 
       C (x32010@1)                   F (133211@1)      GHello, (320003@1)mama and dad I had to call collect
        C (x32010@1)         Em (022000@1)     Am (x02210@1) Am/GCause (302210@1)I ain't got a cent to my name
          C (x32010@1)                 FWell, (133211@1)I'm sleepin' in a hotel doorway
       D (xx0232@1)                      GAnd (320003@1)tonight they say it's gonna rain
             C (x32010@1)    Em (022000@1)       Am (x02210@1)  Am/GAnd (302210@1)if you'd only send me some money
           C (x32010@1)    Em (022000@1)  Am (x02210@1)  Am/G (302210@1)I'll be back on my feet again
C (x32010@1)        Em (022000@1)         Am (x02210@1)    Am/G (302210@1)                         
Send it in care of the Sunday Mission
F (133211@1)        C (x32010@1)  C-Em-Am-Am/G-F-G6-C
Box Number Ten

              C (x32010@1)          GWell, (320003@1)back in Southern Illinois
               Am (x02210@1)                F (133211@1) CThey're (x32010@1)still worryin" 'bout their boy
                     G (320003@1)                     F (133211@1) C-G         
But this boy's goin' home soon's he gets the fare
           C (x32010@1)              GBecause (320003@1)as soon as I got my bread
        Am (x02210@1)           FI (133211@1)got a pipe upside my head
              C (x32010@1)             
You know they took me in an alley
        G (320003@1)                 F (133211@1) C-G
Took my money and my guitar too

Repeat refrain

End chords: C - Em - Am - Am/G - F - G - C 






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