• Song:

    Santa Rosa In The Snow

  • Artist:

    Joe Purdy

  • Album:

    Canyon Joe

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

C (x32010@1)G (320003@1)C (x32010@1)G (320003@1)1. 
      CHappy (x32010@1)New Year Santa Rosa here I am
        F (133211@1)                               CI (x32010@1)was brought in by the weather and the cold
        G (320003@1)                                 AmI (x02210@1)was heading towards the West to find the sand
        G (320003@1)                              FBut (133211@1)I guess I'll have to settle for the snow

2. 
    CAnd (x32010@1)I am just a stranger to this town
      F (133211@1)                             CI'm (x32010@1)lonely and I'm restless and I'm stuck
   G (320003@1)                            AmI (x02210@1)wish I knew a way to get back down
      G (320003@1)                            FAnd (133211@1)I wish I had a shovel in this truck

3. 
         C (x32010@1)And the state police won't let me on the street
    F (133211@1)                              CI (x32010@1)told 'em my story, but they don't care
            G (320003@1)                        AmThere's (x02210@1)an old dog just lying at the feet
      G (320003@1)                               FOf (133211@1)a girl who once wore flowers in her hair

4. 
    CAnd (x32010@1)my heart lies fifty miles ahead
F (133211@1)                               CUnderneath (x32010@1)a bridge just out of sight
      G (320003@1)                         Amshe (x02210@1)sits beneath the covers of a bed
           G (320003@1)                              FWhere (133211@1)she waits for me to meet her in the night

5. 
     CAnd (x32010@1)this old town was named after a rose
       F (133211@1)                                   CThat (x32010@1)blooms along the hillside in the cold ground
     G (320003@1)                              AmBut (x02210@1)my heart has been broken and is closed
           G (320003@1)                              FLike (133211@1)the freeway that would take me out of town

6. 
CAnd (x32010@1)just because I don't got no regrets
           F (133211@1)                              CYeah (x32010@1)well that don't mean I didn't get it wrong
 G (320003@1)                                AmMy (x02210@1)love is like a homemade summer dress
 G (320003@1)                        FI (133211@1)am just a lonely winter song

7. 
    CAnd (x32010@1)I dust off the snowflakes from the hood
    F (133211@1)                              CAnd (x32010@1)I talk to an old friend on the phone
           G (320003@1)                                AmShe (x02210@1)says, "I think that the calm could do you good
  G (320003@1)                        FYou (133211@1)have been traveling so long"

8.
         CSo (x32010@1)Happy New Years babe, I guess this is goodbye
     F (133211@1)                                   CAnd (x32010@1)I hope that you find someone you can hold
     G (320003@1)                               AmAnd (x02210@1)if you hear that midnight whistle cry
       G (320003@1)                                FPlease (133211@1)think of me in Santa Rosa in the snow 

  C (x32010@1)  F (133211@1)  C (x32010@1) G (320003@1)  Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1) F (133211@1)
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