Santa Rosa in the Snow - Joe Purdy

Happy New Year Santa Rosa here I am

I was brought in by the weather and the cold

I was heading towards the West to find the sand

I guess I’ll have to settle for the snow

And I am just a stranger to this town

I’m lonely and I’m restless and I’m stuck

And I wish I knew a way to get back down

And I wish I had a shovel in this truck

And the state police won’t let me on the street

I told 'em my story — they don’t care

There’s an old dog just lying at the feet

Of a girl who once wore flowers in her hair

And my heart lies fifty miles ahead

Underneath a bridge just out of sight

Where she sits beneath the covers of a bed

Where she waits for me to meet her in the night

And this old town was named after a rose

That blooms along the hillside in the cold ground

But my heart has been broken and it’s closed

Like the freeway that would take me out of town

And just because I ain’t got no regrets

That don’t mean I didn’t get it wrong

My love is like a homemade Summer dress

And I am just a lonely Winter song

I dust off the snowflakes from the hood

And I talk to an old friend on the phone

She says, «I think that the calm could do you good

You know you’ve been driving for so long»

So Happy New Years babe, I guess this is goodbye

And I hope that you find someone you can hold

And if you hear that midnight whistle cry

Please think of me in Santa Rosa in the snow