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 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

 But I guess I'll have to settle for the snow

2.

 And I am just a stranger to this town

 I'm lonely and I'm restless and I'm stuck

 I wish I knew a way to get back down

 And I wish I had a shovel in this truck

3.

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

 I told 'em my story, but they don't care

 There's an old dog just lying at the feet

 Of a girl who once wore flowers in her hair

4.

 And my heart lies fifty miles ahead

Underneath a bridge just out of sight

 she sits beneath the covers of a bed

 Where she waits for me to meet her in the night

5.

 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 is closed

 Like the freeway that would take me out of town

6.

And just because I don't got no regrets

 Yeah well that don't mean I didn't get it wrong

 My love is like a homemade summer dress

 I am just a lonely winter song

7.

 And 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 have been traveling so long"

8.

 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