I'm a poor boy : I'm a long way from home
I'm a poor boy : ain't got nowhere to go
Ain't got nowhere : to lay my worried head
Sometime : I'd sooner to be dead

Please tell me : what you going to do
I left my brown : standing in the door
What you reckon she said : you're not obliged to go
I'm a poor boy : stood on the road and cried
I didn't have no blues : just couldn't be satisfied
Now give me : long?distance phone
I want to hear : from my sweet mama back home
I said to her : ring six four nine
I want to hear : from that bobcat gal of mine