Streets of Bakersfield    (intro)    (sample)

 

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1.     I came here in looking for something        I couldn't find anywhere else,

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    hey, I'm not trying to be nobody,       just want a chance to be myself.

 

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2. I've done a thousand miles of thumbin',    yes, I've worn blisters on my heels,

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    trying to find me something better        here on the streets of Bakersfield.

 

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    You don't know me but you don't like me,

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you say you care less how I feel.

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How many of you that sit and judge me,

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ever walked the streets of Bakersfield ?

 

+ instrumental = CHORUS

 

   A                                                 D       - E                                             A

3.    Spent some time in San Francisco,       I spent a night there in the can,

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   they threw this drunk man in my jail cell,    I took fifteen dollars from that man.

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Left him my watch and my old house keys,  don't like folks thinking that I'd steal,

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    then I thanked him as I was leaving,      and I headed out for Bakersfield.

 

+ CHORUS

 

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    How many of you that sit and judge me,

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    ever walked the streets of Bakersfield.

 

    (Dwight Yoakam)