By a cafe where I hope to be workin’ soon

What’s That Song?

If you guessed Please Come to Boston by Dave Loggins, you are correct!

Today’s Bill Campbell What’s That Song, released in May 1974 and written by Dave Loggins, spent two weeks on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart at #5 in August of the same year. Please Come to Boston also spent a week topping Billboard’s Easy Listening chart.

Please Come to Boston is purely fictional even though there are three hopeful versus to a woman whom Dave hopes will join him in Boston, Denver, and L.A. respectively. The response each time, “She said ‘No – boy would you come home to me” with the sentiment further elaborated in the chorus, “I’m the number one fan of the man from Tennessee.” Tennessee is Dave’s home state.

Did you know…

• Please Come to Boston was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.
• Artists covering Please Come to Boston include David Allan Coe, Joan Baez, B.W. Stevenson, Willie Nelson, Glen Campbell, Kenny Chesney, Reba McEntire, Jimmy Buffet, Rita Wilson, and many others.
• Please Come to Boston was the first single released from Dave Loggins’ Apprentice album.

Song Title

Please come to Boston for the springtime
I’m stayin’ here with some friends
And they’ve got lots of room
You can sell your paintings on the sidewalk
By a cafe where I hope to be workin’ soon
Please come to Boston
She said, “No
Would you come home to me?”

And she said, “Hey, ramblin’ boy
Now won’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
And throw “I love you” echoes down the canyon
And then lie awake at night until they come back around
Please come to Denver
She said, “No
Boy, would you come home to me?”

And 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
Cause I’m the number one fan
Of the man from Tennessee.”

Now, this drifter’s world goes ’round and ’round
And I doubt that it’s ever gonna stop
But of all the dreams I’ve lost or found
And all that I ain’t got
I still need to lean to
Somebody I can sing to

Please come to L.A. to live forever
A 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
And livin’ up on the hill
Please come to L.A
She just said, “No
Boy, won’t you come home to me?”

And she said, “Hey, ramblin’ boy
Why don’t you settle down?
L.A. can’t be your kind of town
There ain’t no gold and
There ain’t nobody like me
No, no, I’m the number one fan
Of the man from Tennessee
I’m the number one fan
Of the man from Tennessee.”
(Please Come to Boston lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group)

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