Please come to Boston for the springtime
I'm staying here with some friends and they've got lots of room
You can sell your paintings on the sidewalk
By a café where I hope to be working soon
Please come to Boston
She said no, baby, you come home to me
She said hey ramblin' boy why don't you settle down
Boston ain't your kind of town
There ain't no gold, and there ain't nobody like me
I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee
Please come to Denver with the snowfall
We'll move up into the mountains so far that we can't be found
We'll throw I love you echoes down the canyon
And then lie awake at night 'til they come back around
Please come to Denver
She said no, baby, you come home to me
She said hey ramblin' boy why don't you settle down
Denver ain't your kind of town
There ain't no gold, and there ain't nobody like me
I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee
[Bridge:]
Now the drifter's world goes round and round
And I doubt if it's ever gonna stop
But of all the dreams I've lost and found
And all that I ain't got
I just need to lean to somebody I can sing to
Please come to LA to live forever
California life alone is just too hard to build
I live in a house that looks out over the ocean
And there's some stars that fell from the sky living up on the hill
Please come to LA
She said no, baby, you come home to me
She said hey ramblin' boy why don't you settle down
LA ain't your kind of town
There ain't no gold, and there ain't nobody like me
I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee
I'm staying here with some friends and they've got lots of room
You can sell your paintings on the sidewalk
By a café where I hope to be working soon
Please come to Boston
She said no, baby, you come home to me
She said hey ramblin' boy why don't you settle down
Boston ain't your kind of town
There ain't no gold, and there ain't nobody like me
I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee
Please come to Denver with the snowfall
We'll move up into the mountains so far that we can't be found
We'll throw I love you echoes down the canyon
And then lie awake at night 'til they come back around
Please come to Denver
She said no, baby, you come home to me
She said hey ramblin' boy why don't you settle down
Denver ain't your kind of town
There ain't no gold, and there ain't nobody like me
I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee
[Bridge:]
Now the drifter's world goes round and round
And I doubt if it's ever gonna stop
But of all the dreams I've lost and found
And all that I ain't got
I just need to lean to somebody I can sing to
Please come to LA to live forever
California life alone is just too hard to build
I live in a house that looks out over the ocean
And there's some stars that fell from the sky living up on the hill
Please come to LA
She said no, baby, you come home to me
She said hey ramblin' boy why don't you settle down
LA ain't your kind of town
There ain't no gold, and there ain't nobody like me
I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee
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LanguageEnglish
GenreCountry
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Duration00:02:09
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AddedDecember 4th, 2016
Last updatedMarch 6th, 2022
About"Please Come to Boston" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Dave Loggins. It was released in May 1974 as the first single from his album Apprentice (In a Musical Workshop) and was produced by Jerry Crutchfield. It spent two weeks at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in August 1974; it spent one week atop the Billboard easy listening chart. It was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category Best Male Pop Vocal performance.
The three verses of the song are each a plea from the narrator to a woman he hopes will join him in, respectively, Boston, Denver, and Los Angeles, with each verse concluding: "She said 'No - boy would you come home to me'"; the woman's sentiment is elaborated on in the chorus which concludes with the line: "I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee." Tennessee is the home state of Dave Loggins, who has said of "Please Come to Boston" - "The story is almost true, except there wasn't anyone waiting so I made her up. In effect, making the longing for [a companion] stronger. It was a recap to my first trip to each of those cities...[and] how I saw each one. The fact of having no one to come home to made the chorus easy to write. Some forty years later, I still vividly remember that night [of composition], and it was as if someone else was writing the song."
The song has been covered numerous times, most notably by country music singer David Allan Coe and folk singer Joan Baez, who actually began her career in the Boston-Cambridge area and included the song on her 1976 live album From Every Stage: like other female singers performing "Please Come to Boston", Baez sings from the perspective of the woman refusing the invitations. Other notable artists to have covered the song include B. W. Stevenson, Tammy Wynette, Willie Nelson, Glen Campbell, Babyface, Tori Amos, Andrew WK, Kenny Chesney, Wade Bowen, Jackopierce, Reba McEntire, Jimmy Buffett, Lee Hazlewood, Chase Bryant and Confederate Railroad.
The three verses of the song are each a plea from the narrator to a woman he hopes will join him in, respectively, Boston, Denver, and Los Angeles, with each verse concluding: "She said 'No - boy would you come home to me'"; the woman's sentiment is elaborated on in the chorus which concludes with the line: "I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee." Tennessee is the home state of Dave Loggins, who has said of "Please Come to Boston" - "The story is almost true, except there wasn't anyone waiting so I made her up. In effect, making the longing for [a companion] stronger. It was a recap to my first trip to each of those cities...[and] how I saw each one. The fact of having no one to come home to made the chorus easy to write. Some forty years later, I still vividly remember that night [of composition], and it was as if someone else was writing the song."
The song has been covered numerous times, most notably by country music singer David Allan Coe and folk singer Joan Baez, who actually began her career in the Boston-Cambridge area and included the song on her 1976 live album From Every Stage: like other female singers performing "Please Come to Boston", Baez sings from the perspective of the woman refusing the invitations. Other notable artists to have covered the song include B. W. Stevenson, Tammy Wynette, Willie Nelson, Glen Campbell, Babyface, Tori Amos, Andrew WK, Kenny Chesney, Wade Bowen, Jackopierce, Reba McEntire, Jimmy Buffett, Lee Hazlewood, Chase Bryant and Confederate Railroad.
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