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California Snow

Tom Russell
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I'm just trying to make a living
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I'm an old man at 39
 AD
 Two kids and an ex-wife
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 Moved up to Riverside
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 Working down on the border
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Driving back roads every night
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 Mountains east of El Cajon
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 North of the Tecate Line

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Well the California summer sun will burn right to your soul
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 In the winter you can freeze to death
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In the California snow    

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 I catch the ones I'm able to
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Watch the others slip away
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 I know some by their faces
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And I even know some by name
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 Guess they think that we're all movie stars and millionaires
 ADEA
 Guess that they still believe that dreams come true up here

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But I bet the weather's warmer down in Mexico
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 And no one ever tells them 'bout the California snow    

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 Last winter found a man and wife
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 Just about day break
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 Laying in a frozen ditch
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 South of the interstate
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 I wrapped 'em both in blankets
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But she'd already died
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 Next day we sent him back alone
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 Across the borderline

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 Don't know where they came from
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Or where they planned to go
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 But he carried her all night long
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Through the California snow    

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 Sometimes when I'm alone out here
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I get to thinking about my life
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 Maybe I should go to Riverside
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And try to fix things with my wife
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 Maybe just get in my truck
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And drive as far as I can go
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 Away from all the ghosts that haunt
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The California snow

 DEAD
Well the California summer sun can burn right to your soul
 AD
 In the winter you can freeze to death
 EADAD
In the California snow    
 AD
 In the winter you can freeze to death
 EAD
In the California snow  

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