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Composer: Dave Alvin, Tom Russell

Tom Russell - California Snow lyrics



I'm just trying to earn a living
I'm an old man at 39
My two kids and my ex-wife
Moved up to Riverside
I’m an agent on the border
I drive the back roads every night
Mountains east of El Cajon
North of the Tecate Line

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

I catch the ones I'm able to
I watch the others slip away
Of some I know their faces
I might even know their names
I guess they think that we're all
Movie stars and millionaires
I guess they think their dreams and hopes
Will all come true up here

But I bet the weather's warmer
Way down in Mexico
But no one ever warned them 'bout
The California snow

Last winter I found a man and wife -
It was just about daybreak
Lying in a frozen ditch
North of the Interstate
I wrapped 'em in a blanket
Lord, but she'd already died
We shipped the man on back alone
South of the borderline

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

Man, the things I’ve seen out here
Make me think about my life
I might go back to Riverside
And try to fix things with my wife
Or maybe just get in my truck
And drive as far as I can go
Away from all these ghosts that haunt
The California snow

And the California summer sun
Will burn right to your soul
But in the winter you can freeze to death
In the California snow
In the winter you can freeze to death
In the California snow
Songs list of album: Borderland (2001)
         Title Rating
01   Touch of Evil lyrics  
5.00
02   Down the Rio Grande lyrics  
4.75
03   When Sinatra Played Juarez lyrics  
5.00
04   Where the Dream Begins lyrics  
5.00
05   Hills of Old Juarez lyrics   -
06   The Sante Fe at Midnight lyrics  
5.00
07   The Next Thing Smokin' lyrics  
5.00
08   California Snow lyrics  
5.00
09   Let It Go lyrics  
5.00
10   What Work Is lyrics   -
11   The Road It Gives, the Road It Takes Away lyrics  
4.67
 

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