N.Y.C. (with the Supersuckers) - Steve Earle, The Supersuckers

He was standing on the highway

Somewhere way out in the sticks

Guitar across his shoulder

Like a 30 ought six

He was staring in my headlights

When I come around the bend

Climbed up on my shotgun side

And told me with a grin

I’m going to New York City

I never really been there

Just like the way it sounds

I heard the girls are pretty

There must be something happening there

It’s just too big a town

He was cold and wet and hungry

But he never did complain

Said he’d come a thousand miles

Through sleet and snow and rain

He had a hundred stories

About the places that he’d been

He’d hang around a little while

And hit the road again

See I’ve been to New York City

Seems like it was yesterday

I was standing like a pilgrim

On the Great White Way

The girls were really pretty

But they wouldn’t talk to me

I held out about a week