Name: California
Duration: P00H04M02S
Description: A song about leaving California because water is all but gone.

California

from Windows by Steve and Kristi Nebel

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A song about leaving California because water is all but gone.

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California
On the Sacramento River
Shasta Lake is almost gone
California you have dried up
I think it’s time that I moved on

You have always had your deserts
Now they run from north to south
You’re not fit for habitation
I think it’s time that I moved out

Chorus:
California, California
With your palm trees and your sun
With your mountains and your deserts
California I must run

I heard on the radio
That it isn’t all gone yet
Someone suggested we just drink her up
‘Til there’s no water we can get

I think I’ve tasted quite enough
Of desert dust in this man’s mouth
I think I’ll go up north to Washington
Now that their fires have all gone out

Chorus

I’ll buy me a little cabin
On the shores of Puget Sound
I will dream of California
I’ll dance when rain is falling down

When the folks who drank her dry all leave
To California I’ll return
For now I simply can’t abide them
Tell me will they ever learn

Chorus

You can’t help the things they’ve done
You can’t help the things they say
You’ve been robbed right from the start
I think it’s time I moved away

In the California deserts
Dreams are waiting out there yet
Like a mirage in her great desert
There are things you’ll never get

Chorus

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from Windows, released March 11, 2020
Steve Nebel - guitar, lead vocal
Kristi Nebel - bass guitar, backup vocals
Orville Johnson - dobro
Denali Williams - drums

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Steve and Kristi Nebel Tacoma, Washington

Steve and Kristi Nebel bring passion, finesse, and beauty with their songs of social justice, knife edge observations, and pure, simple love. They have traveled extensively having done nine tours in UK folk clubs and festivals. They have recorded more than ten CDs, mostly of their own songs. ... more

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