Joe Purdy, Santa Rosa in the Snow
no capo, standard tuning

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1. 
      C
Happy New Year Santa Rosa here I am
        F                                 C
I was brought in by the weather and the cold
        G                                   Am
I was heading towards the West to find the sand
        G                                F
But I guess I'll have to settle for the snow

2. 
    C
And I am just a stranger to this town
      F                               C
I'm lonely and I'm restless and I'm stuck
   G                              Am
I wish I knew a way to get back down
      G                              F
And I wish I had a shovel in this truck

3. 
         C 
And the state police won't let me on the street
    F                                C
I told 'em my story, but they don't care
            G                          Am
There's an old dog just lying at the feet
      G                                 F
Of a girl who once wore flowers in her hair

4. 
    C
And my heart lies fifty miles ahead
F                                 C
Underneath a bridge just out of sight
      G                           Am
she sits beneath the covers of a bed
           G                                F
Where she waits for me to meet her in the night

5. 
     C
And this old town was named after a rose
       F                                     C
That blooms along the hillside in the cold ground
     G                                Am
But my heart has been broken and is closed
           G                                F
Like the freeway that would take me out of town

6. 
C
And just because I don't got no regrets
           F                                C
Yeah well that don't mean I didn't get it wrong
 G                                  Am
My love is like a homemade summer dress
 G                          F
I am just a lonely winter song

7. 
    C
And I dust off the snowflakes from the hood
    F                                C
And I talk to an old friend on the phone
           G                                  Am
She says, "I think that the calm could do you good
  G                          F
You have been traveling so long"

8.
         C
So Happy New Years babe, I guess this is goodbye
     F                                     C
And I hope that you find someone you can hold
     G                                 Am
And if you hear that midnight whistle cry
       G                                  F
Please think of me in Santa Rosa in the snow 


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