Southern California
Recorded by George Jones and Tammy Wynette
Written by George Richey, Billy Sherrill, Roger Dale Bowling
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You always said someday you'd go to live
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In Southern California
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And me I'd stay right here in Tennessee
You always talked about the better days
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In Southern California
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But if you'll stay in Tennessee
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I promise there'll be better days with me
It's not that I don't love you
But I hear the call
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From Southern California
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There's something I can't find in Tennessee
Silver screens and limousines
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They wait for me in Southern California
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Though you've been so good to me
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The time has come you'll have to set me free
Tomorrow when you leave you'll take my heart
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To Southern California
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But just remember I'll be here
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To keep your heart with me until you see
spoken:
Well it's been five years and I guess I've cried a million tears
Looking out the window of this little room
Right over that flashing neon sign that says bar
It's almost midnight and time to go downstairs and go to work
I wonder how he's doing in Tennessee
Well here I sit by the window of this big old lonely mansion
Looking out over the Smokies and owning everything I can see
Oh I guess by now she's found what she was looking for
And as I look at this old faded photograph
Of the girl that I still love I wonder if she ever thinks of me
But the weather's good
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In Southern California