Title: Return of the grievous angel
Artists: Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris
Composers: PARSONS G/BROWN T
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Won't you scratch my itch
sweet Annie Rich
and welcome me
back to town
Come out on your porch
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 remembered
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

'cause I headed West
to grow up with the country
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

We flew straight
across that river bridge
last night half past two
Switchman waves his lantern
goodbye today
as we went rolling through

Billboards and truckstops
pass by the grievous angel
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
On his head
an amphetamine crown
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

Oh, and I remembered
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

Twenty thousand roads
I went down, down, down
And they all led me
straight back home to you