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City Boys Lyrics by Patti Scialfa

23rd Street Lullaby

2004

[Verse 1]
My Auntie Mabel
1953
Left her Minnesota dirt farm to see what she could see
In a letter to her mother telling her what she enjoyed
[Refrain]
Said there's nothing in the whole wide world like a city boy
[Verse 2]
1987
Took Daddy's Cadillac
I drove it to Chicago, never brought it back
Well all these years later, I'm still unemployed
[Refrain]
Oh well there's nothing in the whole wide world like a city boy
[Chorus]
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"
[Verse 3]
Well now, baby, what do you think of that
Can you make a woman out of an alley cat?
Can you take the agitation and not get annoyed?
[Refrain]
Oh well there's nothing in the whole wide world like a city boy
[Verse 4]
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
[Refrain]
Still swears there's nothing in the whole wide world like a city boy
[Outro]
Oh, well, there's nothing in the whole wide world like a city boy
Those city boys
Those city boys
Those city boys
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Patti Scialfa

Patti Scialfa

About “City Boys” by Patti Scialfa

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"City Boys" appears on "23rd Street Lullaby" in 2004.

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