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City Boys - Patti Scialfa

My auntie mabel

1953

Left her minnesota dirt farm

See what she could see

In a letter to her mother

Telling her what

She enjoyed

Said there's nothing in

Whole wide world

Like a city boy

1987

Took daddy's cadillac

I drove it to Chicago

Never brought it back

Well all these years later

I'm still unemployed

Oh well there's nothing

In the whole wide world

Like a city boy

My granddaddy

Had long grey hair

Silver cane and

A rocking chair

Tapped that cane

On a wooden floor

Saying take what you're given

And then ask for more

Well I am baby

What do you think no that

Can you make a woman

Out of an alley cat

Can you take the agitation

And not get annoyed

Oh well there's nothing

In the whole wide world

Like a city boy

Now my auntie mabel

She plays the dominoes

Way down south

Where the yucca plant grows

Drinking whiskey out of coca cola

Bottles smoking viceroys

Still swears there's nothing

In the whole wide world

Like a city boy

Still swears there's nothing

In the whole wide world

Like a city boy

Those city boys

Those city boys

Those city boys