City Boys Lyrics
The song City Boys is performed by Patti Scialfa in the album named 23rd Street Lullaby in the year 2004 .
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
said there's nothing in the 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 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
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
Those city boys
Patti Scialfa - 23rd Street Lullaby
Jun 2004
- 23rd Street Lullaby
- You Can't Go Back
- Rose
- City Boys
- Love (Stand Up)
- Yesterday's Child
- Stumbling To Bethlehem
- Each Other's Medicine
- Romeo
- State Of Grace
- Chelsea Avenue
- Young In The City
City Boys