California Country Lyrics

	I am a child of the Golden State, grew up in the orchards and fields
	Seen farm towns become commuter alleys
	Seen shopping malls eat up the trees
	Sometimes I wish for a simpler time
	When you could drink right out of the stream
	The loneliness around me
	freeways just surround me
	I’m thirty miles from a field of green
	CHORUS:
	But I’m still standing in California Country
	My dad moved us to Victorville in June of ’82
	All summer long I traversed the Mojave, went swimming in the river water pool
	On a beautiful farm sloping down to the river, September I was back in school
	The bulldozers stripped the topsoil
	Little flags marked the mile
	I never crossed that river again
	CHORUS X 2
	BRIDGE:
	Here I land with no plan
	And only now I understand
	that I could never leave this land
	I’m a California man
	SOLO
	Well the radio announced the annual meteor shower starting late tonight
	so we drove up to 2 to the Angeles Crest to get out of the city light
	the traffic jam started down in Glendale
	lit the mountains bright as day
	we turned the car the other way
	headed back to L.A.
	disappeared into the streets
	CHORUS X 4

	I am a child of the Golden State, grew up in the orchards and fields
	Seen farm towns become commuter alleys
	Seen shopping malls eat up the trees
	Sometimes I wish for a simpler time
	When you could drink right out of the stream
	The loneliness around me
	freeways just surround me
	I' m thirty miles from a field of green
	CHORUS:
	But I' m still standing in California Country
	My dad moved us to Victorville in June of ' 82
	All summer long I traversed the Mojave, went swimming in the river water pool
	On a beautiful farm sloping down to the river, September I was back in school
	The bulldozers stripped the topsoil
	Little flags marked the mile
	I never crossed that river again
	CHORUS X 2
	BRIDGE:
	Here I land with no plan
	And only now I understand
	that I could never leave this land
	I' m a California man
	SOLO
	Well the radio announced the annual meteor shower starting late tonight
	so we drove up to 2 to the Angeles Crest to get out of the city light
	the traffic jam started down in Glendale
	lit the mountains bright as day
	we turned the car the other way
	headed back to L. A.
	disappeared into the streets
	CHORUS X 4

	I am a child of the Golden State, grew up in the orchards and fields
	Seen farm towns become commuter alleys
	Seen shopping malls eat up the trees
	Sometimes I wish for a simpler time
	When you could drink right out of the stream
	The loneliness around me
	freeways just surround me
	I' m thirty miles from a field of green
	CHORUS:
	But I' m still standing in California Country
	My dad moved us to Victorville in June of ' 82
	All summer long I traversed the Mojave, went swimming in the river water pool
	On a beautiful farm sloping down to the river, September I was back in school
	The bulldozers stripped the topsoil
	Little flags marked the mile
	I never crossed that river again
	CHORUS X 2
	BRIDGE:
	Here I land with no plan
	And only now I understand
	that I could never leave this land
	I' m a California man
	SOLO
	Well the radio announced the annual meteor shower starting late tonight
	so we drove up to 2 to the Angeles Crest to get out of the city light
	the traffic jam started down in Glendale
	lit the mountains bright as day
	we turned the car the other way
	headed back to L. A.
	disappeared into the streets
	CHORUS X 4

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