Country Livin' Blues

Well, I tried my luck in a city

I learned all sorts a' new things there

I spent some money in the city

I paid a man to chop my hair

Well, I've got me a job in the city

I make about eighty bucks a day

Don't it seem like a shame or a pity?

But that's the city-living way

Now it's the end of summer time and I've got a restless mind

I am down right sick of the news

Well, I want to go on wine

I want to get back to mountain time

You know I've got those country-livin' blues

I wanna go back to Montana on my way back to Tennessee

I've gotta see some family in Wisconsin, gotta see a friend down in Kentucky

I been dreamin' o' Wyoming, out there in that open west

Had my fill of the city-livin', country life is what I know best

My life was fine in the country

And then I got an idea I better up and move to town

Well, now I long for the country

And I wish a strong wind would come blow this city down

Blow it down

(Ah, there it goes)

But I fell in love in that city

And she don't care for cows and things

She likes things smooth and pretty

And don't much like the way I sing

Well, that city gal was mine, but just for a short time

My Irish heart's been bruised

Well, I want to go on wine

I got one place on my mind

You know I've got those country-livin' blues

Got 'em bad

I wanna go back to Montana on my way down to Tennessee

I've gotta see some family in Wisconsin, gotta see a friend down in Kentucky

I been dreamin' o' Wyoming, out there in that open west

Had my fill of the city-livin', country life is what I know best