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California Bound
04:34
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CALIFORNIA BOUND
Ten of us kids, a house of pain
No room to move
Nothin’ to lose
Me and my older brother Cain
Struck out on our own
Find a new home
Anywhere we end up couldn’t be this bad
So heart broke sad, no work to be had
So, we’re California, California, we’re California bound
Yeah, we’re California, California, California bound.
All along Route 66
Thumbs in the air
Everywhere
Hungry men with walking sticks
Runnin’ from the dust
The rot and rust
Thirty miles south of Henderson
The sheriff hauled us in “Don’t come this way again.”
Go to California, California, we’re California bound
Yeah, we’re California, California, California bound.
Trucker dropped us off at the Frisco Bay
We worked the docks those long, hot days
We picked the crops down in Monterey
Ended up in LA
Cain became a businessman
Got him a real good wife
Yeah, he did all right
Me, I do the best I can
Try to make ends meet
Keep it off the street
I dream about those days out on the road
so young and bold, so full of hope…
Goin’ to California, California, we’re California bound
Yeah, we were California, California, California bound.
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Drive
02:56
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DRIVE
I got me a wife, a job and kids
Living the life I’m supposed to live and be satisfied
But sometimes I get the urge to run
Point this truck into the sun and drive, just drive,
Yeah, I can feel the pull of the wheel
The unlived life I’m wanting to steal away
She was the prettiest girl I’d ever seen
I didn’t deserve nothing that clean
But I took it anyway
Kids came fast, the work got slow
A chilly wind began to blow our way,
hmmm
Baby, can’t you feel the pull of the wheel
The unlived life you’re wanting to steal away
You draw your cards, you place your bets
Brace for the worst, hope for the best and try
to be satisfied
But lately I get the urge to run
Point this truck into the sun and drive
Just drive
Yeah, can’t you feel the pull of the wheel
The unlived life you’re wanting to steal away and drive,
Baby just drive,
Drive.
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Foothill Boulevard
03:23
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Foothill Boulevard
There’s a Starbucks on the corner
Where the Winchell’s used to be
Big Mike and gang have all moved on
Remember that chick Rita
She just turned 63
The hog farm and the long hairs all gone
The ghost of Alfie Obar
Shooting hoops at Sunland Park
As if that El Camino never rolled
Sweet Jane and me
In the back seat of my car
The greatest story never told on
Foothill Boulevard
Foothill Boulevard
The boys are getting’ ready
To ship out over there
Flags wave and the line’s out the door
JD takes his hat off
Virginia strokes his hair
Says “You know I love a man in a uniform”
The mayor’s giving speeches
And sipping his Jim Beam
As the band plays Down by the Schoolyard
Hey, look! Here comes Downey
And the whole football team
singing Bye, Bye Love as they march down
Foothill Boulevard
Foothill Boulevard
There’s Bikers and there’s Birchers,
Lost soul searchers
Scrub oak sage, scraggly pinion pines
At the foot of Camel’s Back
Old stone shacks
See that one over there, well, it’s mine on
Foothill Boulevard
Foothill Boulevard
Foothill Boulevard
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