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tough place to get and keep a good job. But everytime I get mad and want to leave, I look at the catalinas, the cholla and the critters and change my mind | MP3.com CD: Griot - buy it!
CD: Griot
Credits: Words and Music, performance DKG |
Story Behind the Song
This is my second go-round in Tucson, trying to find work that pays decent and that I can support a family on. I love this place, but it's so difficult...but that's nothing new for folks here
Lyrics
So hard to stay in Tucson
David Kendall Grant
Wednesday, April 17, 2002
C F
So hard to stay in Tucson
C
But I’m trying every day
So hard to stay in Tucson
When you’re a million miles away
(when you’re scrambling for some pay)
C F
I was pulled in by a magnet
G
By a promise
C
Employment as the Catcher in the Rye
It later evaporated
Like a monsoon
Out of reach like the Chem-Trails in the sky
You can smell the money
In every pink face, blue haired
Widow crawling by
But it’s not sticking to me
I’ll be selling papers
Down on Ina by and by
Chorus
I’m her little Javelina
Rooting round for love to catch her eye
I just want to please her
She guards me like a warthog in the sky
Her embrace like saguaros
Feels good but makes me cry
Everytime I try to hold her
I get needles
What's the point to even try
Break
F C
Then, when the snowbirds all depart
F C
The Putsch Ridge shining in the dark
F
We have the Old Pueblo’s heart
G
All to ourselves
My tires are sticking in Tucson
We’ll make it through another
Mi Corazon, Tucson
My melted heart is here to stay
Trying hard to stay in Tucson
But I’m trying every day
Mi Corazon Tucson
Wouldn’t have it any other way
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