The Boy Who Left

I’m missing home again

But all my city friends

Turned folks that I would never want to lose

You see it’s a mystery

To why my misery

Won’t leave me be

I’m pleading, just a minute or two

Alone in unknown grounds

In some unholy town

But my pride won’t let me leave to show them I could

I lost a love for real

But I wrote my name in ink

So I couldn’t do a thing if I wanted to And they all say

That’s the boy who left

I know I’ll see him again

Cause when the big old city beats him out

He’ll come crawling back

Mama understand

That I know I can't

I could go back home

There's nowhere I'd rather be instead

I’m on the road again

Some Oklahoma inn

With dirty clothes and a honey to my name

One day a crowd filled room

The next some dirt cheap food

But I thank the Lord he's kept me on my way

Some days are strange to me

I sit with myself and think

If I wanted I could play a normal tune

I'm tired of crying to sleep

But my father's voice it rings

Don't stop until you've showed them that you could

They all say, huh, they all say

That’s the boy who left

I know I’ll see him again

Cause when the big old city beats him out

He’ll come crawling back

Mama understand

That I know I can't

I could go back home

There's nowhere I'd rather be instead

Be instead

Mamma I’ll be there instead

I’m the man who lived

But when they see me again

I’m coming back boy with wild stories of a distant land

I’ll hold my mamma's hand

And give her heart some rest

Because the boy is home

She knows there's nowhere he will be instead

Be instead

He will be instead