Return Of The Grievous Angel Songtext / Lyric

(Gram Parsons - T. O'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 parlor

And I'll tell 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 lead me straight back home to you.



We flew straight across that river bridge

Last night half past two

The switchman waved 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

'Cause I headed west to grow up with the country

Across those valleys 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.



--- Instrumental ---



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 headed 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, 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...