Please Come to Boston was the lead single from Dave Loggins‘ album Apprentice (In a Musical Workshop.
The song peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart for a week in August of 1974.
It was also nominated for a Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.
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 was written by Dave Loggins.
Please Come to Boston was produced by Jerry Crutchfield.
Dave Loggins released Please Come to Boston on Mon May 06 1974.
Dave on the backstory:
The story is almost true, except there wasn’t anyone waiting {here} so I made her up. In effect, making the longing for someone stronger. It was a recap to my first trip to each of those cities and out of innocence. That was how I saw each one. The fact of having no one to co...