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

C5  G5  C5  G5


1. 
      C5
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

2. 
    C5
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

3. 
         C5 
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

4. 
    C5
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

5. 
     C5
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

6. 
C5
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

7. 
    C5
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"

8.
         C5
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 


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