In Northern California ( Where The Palm Tree Meets The Pine)-Danny O'Keefe

[ti:In Northern California ( Where The Palm Tree Meets The Pine)] [ar:Danny O'Keefe] [al:American Roulette] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]In Northern California ( Where The Palm Tree Meets The Pine) - Danny O'Keefe (丹尼·欧基夫) [00:07.80]Well it was closin' time tryin' to beat the clock [00:12.27]And waitin' for a woman as fast as her talk [00:15.95] [00:18.89]When up limped a crippled woman [00:21.70] [00:23.15]I'm a little slick [00:25.19] [00:26.42]She said [00:26.94]There's only two kinds in the end of it [00:29.63] [00:30.75]The dead of course and the quick [00:33.46] [00:34.25]And the dead of course stand naked [00:37.59] [00:38.14]With their backs against the wall [00:41.34] [00:42.07]Now there's two ways [00:43.89]You can have it son she said [00:46.52]Mine or not at all [00:49.12] [00:52.09]She'd thrown away her crutches [00:56.01]But I knew that I'd need mine [00:58.98] [01:01.91]In northern California [01:04.93]Where the palm tree meets the pine [01:08.79] [01:11.64]She was a much older woman [01:14.48] [01:15.08]You can always tell by the shoes [01:18.55] [01:19.19]She dealt in fools and gamblers [01:22.65] [01:23.22]And boys who made the news [01:26.56] [01:29.26]Her body smelled like roses look [01:32.94]Her nails were sharp and long [01:35.61] [01:36.72]Her heart she said was an open book [01:40.24]And on every page a song [01:43.23] [01:46.19]So I helped her with her braces [01:49.92]Said the pleasure was all mine man [01:54.65] [01:56.20]In northern California [01:59.11]Where the palm tree meets the pine [02:02.85]Up in northern California [02:06.72]Where the palm tree meets the pine [02:10.03] [02:13.03]Like all of us she had her dreams [02:16.58]Not the least was true romance [02:19.75] [02:20.46]But I knew I'd lost the handle [02:23.51] [02:24.34]When she softly sighed [02:26.60]Let's dance [02:28.06] [02:30.31]She love me like she knew I was [02:34.43]An outlay on the run [02:36.77] [02:38.00]And in the morning when I woke [02:40.77] [02:42.10]I was the crippled one [02:44.28] [02:47.47]So I left her as I found her [02:50.94] [02:51.45]Right in the nick of time [02:54.20] [02:57.13]In northern California [03:00.30]Where the palm tree meets the pine [03:04.00]Yup in northern California [03:08.04]Where the palm tree meets the pine