Return of the Grievous Angel

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Won't you scratch my itch sweet Annie Rich

And welcome me back to town

Come out on your porch, step into your parlor

And I'll show you how it all went down

Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels

And a good saloon in every single town

Oh and I remember something you once told me

And I'll be damned if it did not come true

Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down

And they all led me straight back home to you

So I headed west to grow up with the country

Out across those prairies with those waves of grain

And I saw my devil and I saw my deep blue sea

And I thought about a calico bonnet from Cheyenne to Tennessee

Hey, we flew straight across that river bridge

Last night at half past two

The switchman wave his lantern goodbye, good luck

As we went rolling through

Billboards and truck stops pass by the grievous angel

And now I know just what I have to do

And the man on the radio won't leave me alone

He wants to take my money for something that I've never been shown

And I saw my devil and I saw my deep blue sea

And I thought about a calico bonnet from Cheyenne to Tennessee

The news I could bring I met up with the king

His head an amphetamine crown

Talked about unbuckling that old Bible belt

And lit out for some desert town

Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels

And a good saloon in every single town

Oh, but I remember something you once told me

Oh, and I'll be damned if it did not come true

Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down

And they all lead me straight back home to you

Oh, twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down

And they all lead me straight back home to you