Dreams Of The San Joaquin

Album: You Can't Make Old Friends (2013)
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  • I'm sending you some money, I wish it could be more
    But it's harder than I thought to find the work I came here for
    This place is just as pretty as I pictured it to be
    But a man in need of work's an all too common sight to see

    Each morning as the trucks roll in the lucky few climb on
    The rest of us are left to wonder where the dream has gone
    Where the dream has gone

    They say the Sierras melt with the rain
    And race through the valley like blood through the vein
    Turning the lowland from golden to green
    To harvest forever our dreams of the San Joaquin

    Every day I struggle with the distance and the fear
    That I will not return or find a way to bring you here
    My emptiness grows deeper
    My spirit starts to fall
    As night comes like a blanket that brings no sleep at all

    Only hope that time will find a way to work things out
    That we may be together in this life we dream about
    This life we dream about

    They say the sierras melt with the rain
    And race through the valley like blood through the vein
    Turning the lowland from golden to green
    To harvest forever our dreams of the San Joaquin

    We'll harvest forever
    In dreams of the San Joaquin Writer/s: Jack Wesley Routh, Randy L Sharp
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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