Chords for Tom Russell - "California Snow"

_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [C] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] I'm just trying [Eb] to earn my living.
_ [Bb] I'm an old man at 39
_ _ _ My two kids and [Eb] my ex-wife
_ [F] moved up to Riverside
_ _ [Bb] I'm an agent on the [Eb] border.
_ [Bb] I drive the back roads
late at night
_ [C] _ _ [F]
Mountains east of El Cajon
[C] north [F] of the [Bb] Tecate line _ _ _ _
[Eb] where the
California [F] summer sun [Bb] will burn right through your soul _
_ _ In the winter you can freeze to death [F] in the
_ [Bb] California snow
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ I catch the ones [Eb] I'm able to [Bb] I watch the others
[Eb] slip away
_ [C] _ _ [Bb] Some I know their [Eb] faces
[Bb] I [F] might even know their names
_ _ [Bb] I guess they think [Eb] that we're all
[Bb] movie stars and
_ [Eb] millionaires _ [Bb] I
Guess they think [Eb] their dreams and hopes [F] will all come through
here _ and I bet the weather's warmer
_ [Bb] on down in Mexico
_ _ _ _ No one [Eb] ever told them
_ _ [F] the _
[Bb] California snow
_ [Eb] _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ [Gm] Last winter I [Eb] found a man and wife
[Bb] It was just a bad [Eb] day break _
_ [Bb] _ lying in [Eb] a frozen ditch
[F] north of the interstate I
[G] _
_ [Bb] _ Wrapped him up in [Eb] a blanket Lord
[Bb] But she'd already [Eb] died
_ [C] _
_ [Bb] We shipped the man [F] on back alone
_ south of the [Bb] border
And _ _ _ _ [Eb] I don't know where [F] they came from
[Bb] Oh _
Hope to go
But he carried her body [F] all night long through the _ _
[Bb] California snow
_ [Eb] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] Well, man the things I've seen up here _
Make me think about
my life I
_ Might go back [Cm] to Riverside
[F] Try to fix things with my wife _
[Bbm] Or maybe I'll just get [Eb] in the truck and [Bb] drive as far as
[Eb] I can go
[Bb] _ _ Away from all [Eb] these ghosts that haunt
[F] _ _ California [Bb] snow and _ _ _ _ [Eb] a
California [F] summer sun _ [Bb] will burn
Right through your [F] soul
_ [Bb] _ In the winter [F] you can freeze to death in the _
[Bb] California snow
_ _ In the winter [Eb] you can freeze to death [C] in the _
_ [Bb] California snow
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
[C] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[N] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _