<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">California Snow<div><br></div><div><div class="gmail-xaAUmb" style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: rgb(32, 33, 36); line-height: 20px; margin: 16px 0px;"><div class="gmail-ujudUb" style="margin-bottom: 12px;">I'm just tryin' to make a livin'<br aria-hidden="true">I'm an old man at thirty-nine<br aria-hidden="true">With two kids and an ex-wife<br aria-hidden="true">Who moved up to Riverside<br aria-hidden="true">I'm workin' down on the border<br aria-hidden="true">Drivin' back roads every night<br aria-hidden="true">Mountains east of El Cajon<br aria-hidden="true">North of the Tecate line.</div><div class="gmail-ujudUb" style="margin-bottom: 12px;">Where the California summer sun<br aria-hidden="true">Will burn right through your soul<br aria-hidden="true">But in the winter you can freeze to death<br aria-hidden="true">In the California snow.</div><div class="gmail-ujudUb" style="margin-bottom: 12px;">I catch the ones I'm able to<br aria-hidden="true">And watch the others slip away<br aria-hidden="true">I know some by their faces<br aria-hidden="true">And I even know some by name<br aria-hidden="true">I guess they think that we're all<br aria-hidden="true">Movie stars and millionaires<br aria-hidden="true">I guess that they still believe<br aria-hidden="true">That dreams come true up here.</div><div class="gmail-ujudUb" style="margin-bottom: 12px;">But I guess the weather's warmer down in Mexico<br aria-hidden="true">And no one ever tells them 'bout the California snow.</div><div class="gmail-ujudUb" style="margin-bottom: 12px;">Last winter I found a man and wife<br aria-hidden="true">Just about daybreak<br aria-hidden="true">Layin' in a frozen ditch<br aria-hidden="true">South of the interstate<br aria-hidden="true">I wrapped 'em both in blankets<br aria-hidden="true">But she'd already died<br aria-hidden="true">The next day we sent him back alone<br aria-hidden="true">Across the borderline.</div><div class="gmail-ujudUb" style="margin-bottom: 12px;">I don't know where they came from<br aria-hidden="true">Or where they planned to go<br aria-hidden="true">But he carried her all night long<br aria-hidden="true">Through the California snow.</div><div class="gmail-ujudUb" style="margin-bottom: 12px;">Sometimes when I'm alone out here<br aria-hidden="true">I get to thinkin' about my life<br aria-hidden="true">Maybe I should go to Riverside<br aria-hidden="true">And try to fix things with my wife<br aria-hidden="true">Or maybe just get in my truck<br aria-hidden="true">And drive as far as I can go<br aria-hidden="true">Away from all the ghosts that haunt<br aria-hidden="true">The California snow.</div><div class="gmail-ujudUb gmail-WRZytc" style="margin-bottom: 0px;">Where the California summer sun<br aria-hidden="true">Can burn right to your soul<br aria-hidden="true">And in the winter you can freeze to death<br aria-hidden="true">In the California snow.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Tom Russell</div></div></div></div></body></html>