Box #10 chords - Stoney Larue

How to Play "Box #10" Guitar chords

Verse 1
            C               Em             Am           F
Well out of southern Illinois, come a down home country boy
       C                            G                     C                                   
He's gonna make it in the city playin guitar in the studio
          C                     Em        Am             F                                         
Well he hadn't been there an hour, when he met a Broadway flower
               C                              G                    C                                 
You know she took him for his money and she left him in a cheap motel  


Verse 2
                    
Well now it's easy for you to see, that that country boy is me
         
Tell me how'm I ever gonna break the news to the folks back home
        
Well I was gonna be a great success, things sure ended up a mess

And in the process, I got messed up too


CHORUS
        G                   Am 
Hello mom and dad I hate to call ya collect

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     F         G             C
but I aint got a cent to my name
         F
Well I'm sleepin in the hotel doorway
          G                 
And tonight they say it's gonna rain
               C     Em         Am
And if I could only get me some money
 G      F(barred)  G      C    
I'd be back on my feet again
C          Em          Am    G       F   G      C  
Send it in care of the Sunday Mission Box Number 10


Verse 3
              
out of southern Illinios, his parents worry about their boy

But this boy's comin' home soon's he gets the fare
               
Well as soon as I got the bread, I got a pop upside my head
                       
You know they left me in an alley, took my money and my guitar too


CHORUS
      
Hello mom and dad I hate to call ya collect
      
but I aint got a cent to my name
        
Well I'm sleepin in the hotel doorway
                           
And tonight they say it's gonna rain
         
And if I could only get me some money
      
I'd be back on my feet again

Send it in care of the Sunday Mission Box Number 10

Send it in care of the Sunday Mission Box Number 10 
    


Listen to the song for the Rhythm and use a Barred F and G at the end of the 
chorus rather.

If your having trouble with the rhythm and dont know how to time the walk downs