Lyrics to
Box #10

This version of Box #10 was released by Jim Croce in 1972.

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Well, out of Southern Illinois
Come a down home country boy.
He’s gonna make it in the city
Playin’ guitar in the studio.

Well he hadn’t been there an hour,
When he met a Broadway flower,
You know she took him for his money
And she left him in a cheap hotel.

Oh, well, it’s easy for you to see
That that country boy is me
Saying “And how am I gonna ever
break the news to the folks back home?”

Well, I was gonna be a great success,
Things sure ended up a mess,
But in the process I got messed up too.

“Hello Mamma and Dad I had to call collect
‘Cause I ain’t got a cent to my name.
Well I’m sleepin’ in the hotel doorway,
And tonight they say it’s gonna rain.
And if you’d only send me some money
I’ll be back on my feet again,
Send it in care of the Sunday Mission
Box number ten.”

Well, back in Southern Illinois
They’re still worryin’ ’bout their boy.
But this boy’s goin’ home soon’s he get’s the fare.

Because as soon as I got my bread
I got a pipe upside my head.
You know they left me in an alley,
Took my money and my guitar, too.

“Hello Mamma and Dad I had to call collect
‘Cause I ain’t got a cent to my name.
Well I’m sleepin’ in the hotel doorway,
And tonight they say it’s gonna rain.
And if you’d only send me some money
I’ll be back on my feet again,
Send it in care of the Sunday Mission
Box number ten.”

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Jim Croce has released many songs over the years besides Box #10. Jim Croce released songs from 1972 to 1973 spanning across albums like You Don't Mess Around With Jim, Life And Times, and I Got A Name. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Jim Croce.

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About Lyrics and Box #10 by Jim Croce

The lyrics for Box #10 are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1972 song by Jim Croce. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Box #10 have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Box #10 - Jim Croce and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Box #10 by Jim Croce in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Box #10" means the words set to the music of Box #10, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jim Croce. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Box #10 and the lyrics to Box #10 are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jim Croce who came here looking just for the lyrics to Box #10, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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