Rose City
By: Todd Snider
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We wrote our names in the tunnel back when
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Coos Bay was as far away as we’d ever been
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Pine trees climbing up winding hills
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Fishing boats and paper mills
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Multnomah County’s where I come from
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Hometown to Bigfoot and the Burnside bums
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Rain clouds hangin’ down low and grey
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God knows I wish it would have rained today
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Tonight I’ve got those old Rose City blues
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Tonight I’ve got those old Rose City blues
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Tonight I’m drivin’ through some other town
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Radio on with the windows down
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Old song comes on from a long time ago
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How on earth did that DJ know
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Tonight I’ve got those old Rose City blues
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Tonight I’ve got those old Rose City blues
Bridge:
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Rain rain rain
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Pouring rain doesn’t bother me
Lead solo
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We wrote our names in the tunnel back then
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And last night we went down and did it again
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One sip too many from that old loving cup
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Rose City people never do grow up
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Tonight I’ve got those old Rose City blues
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Tonight I’ve got those old Rose City blues