I pack my clothes in a cardboard box and mama packed my lunch   I walk down to the highway and caught a trailways bus   I woke up in the city stepped down on the curb   To 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 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 didn't even bother to unpack the clothes that I brought   Some man paid me ten dollars for grandpa's pocket watch   I got off the trailways bus, the same place I got on   My head is full of memories, walkin' down the road to home      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      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