Return of the Grievous Angel (Gram Parsons/Thomas Brown)
Won't you scratch my itch sweet Annie
Rich 
And welcome me back to town
Come out on your porch or I'll step into
your parlour
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
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 lead me straight back home
to you
'Cause I headed West to grow up with the
country
Across those prairies with the 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
We flew straight across that river
bridge, last night
half past two
The switchman wave his lantern goodbye
and good day as we
went rolling through
Billboards and truckstops 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 see
And I thought about a calico bonnet from
Cheyenne to
Tennessee
The news I could bring I met up with the
king
On his head an amphetamine crown
He talked about unbuckling that old
bible belt
And lighted out for some desert town
Out with the truckers and the kickers
and the cowboy angels
And a good saloon in every single town
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 lead me straight back home
to you
Twenty thousand roads I went down, down,
down
And they all lead me straight back home
to you
Gram Parsons "Grievous
Angel"
Copyright 1973 Wait & See Music BMI
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Thomas Brown in an email:
Dear
Sir: I wrote the lyric to the above for Gram Things got messed up when
he died Please verify this info. at BMI.com Gram Parsons.com, Emmylou and Lucinda Williams' recordings, etc Kindly credit me, after all, Annie Rich
refers to my ex-wife! Thank you and best wishes. Thomas Brown
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