Joe Purdy – Santa Rosa In The Snow (Guitar)

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Happy New Year Santa Rosa here I am

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I was brought in by the weather and the cold

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I was heading towards the West to find the sand

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But I guess I'll have to settle for the snow

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And I am just a stranger to this town

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I'm lonely and I'm restless and I'm stuck

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I wish I knew a way to get back down

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And I wish I had a shovel in this truck

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And the state police won't let me on the street

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I told 'em my story, but they don't care

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There's an old dog just lying at the feet

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Of a girl who once wore flowers in her hair

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And my heart lies fifty miles ahead

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Underneath a bridge just out of sight

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she sits beneath the covers of a bed

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Where she waits for me to meet her in the night

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And this old town was named after a rose

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That blooms along the hillside in the cold ground

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But my heart has been broken and is closed

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Like the freeway that would take me out of town

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And just because I don't got no regrets

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Yeah well that don't mean I didn't get it wrong

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My love is like a homemade summer dress

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I am just a lonely winter song

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And I dust off the snowflakes from the hood

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And I talk to an old friend on the phone

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She says, "I think that the calm could do you good

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You have been traveling so long"

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So Happy New Years babe, I guess this is goodbye

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And I hope that you find someone you can hold

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And if you hear that midnight whistle cry

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Please think of me in Santa Rosa in the snow