Santa Ana Wind chords by Tom Russell

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Intro 1

Adim

Verse 1
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When these old adobe walls
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Turn to dust and then they fall
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And the creatures of the night
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call out your name
Mother
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Nature, she'll grab hold
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Of all the things that we've let go
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Here comes an ill -intentioned
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wind that knows your name
In the desert night it builds
Near
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Gila,
Monster
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Hills, a wisp of dust
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Then a whisper, then a curse
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Soon it's ninety miles an hour
Near
El
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Centro,
Water
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Tower
Look out,
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Cajon, you'll be the first
How those
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Santa winds begin to blow
From
Death
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Valley to the wide
Pacific shore
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Won't be no saints come marchin' in
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No movie stars or clergymen
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Where will you run when that wind
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howls neath your door
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When that sand and wind begins to
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Em 
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roar
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California, my home state
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Cars of people sit and wait
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They know it's coming.
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They can feel it in their bones
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All that real estate and pride
All those
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Indians that died while a
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Spanish priest danced the drunk
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fandango
They say the troubadours invented love
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A thousand years before the flood
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They rode from town to town
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Singing of the mystery
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Well, the wind sings its own song
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Moving pa tiently along
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Burning down the lives of
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Western history
Now that
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Santa
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Ana wind begins to blow
From
Death
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Valley to the wide
Pacific shore
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Only no saints come marching in
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No cowboy stars or clergymen
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Where will you run when that wind
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howls neath your door?
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When that saddened wind begins to roar
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When that
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Santa
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Anna will be
Mr.
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Lord