Santa Rosa In the Snow
by Joe Purdy
From the album Canyon Joe


Tabbed by Kevin (liquoricewhip@hotmail.com)
Check out the Unofficial Joe Purdy Transcription site at www.kevin.host-ed.net/joepurdy

Standard tuning

C G C G


C      F     C
Happy New Year's, Santa Rosa, here I am

I was brought in by the weather and the cold
G   Am    G   F
I was heading towards the west to find the sand

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

    C
And I'm 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

        C
And the state police won't let me on the street
   F                                  C
I told them my story but they don't care

And there's an old dog just lying at the feet

Of a girl that once wore flowers in her hair

       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

    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


And just because I don't got no regrets

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

My love was like a homemade summer dress

I am just a lonely winter song

    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 the calm could do you good
G                            F
You have been traveling so long"

         C
So Happy New Year's 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 and Santa Rosa in the snow


C F C
G Am G F