House in California-Keb' Mo'

[00:00.000] 作词 : Keb' Mo', Nicholson [00:08.80]锘縒e were sick and tired of Buffalo, [00:11.94]tired of freezin鈥 and shovelin鈥 snow [00:13.20] [00:14.32]So we packed it up and moved out to the coast, [00:17.31] [00:19.00]to find us a house in California. [00:21.62] [00:24.00]Somethin鈥 at the beach or Hollywood, [00:25.75] [00:26.37]three of four bedrooms sound real good, [00:28.06] [00:28.81]Don鈥檛 have to have a pool or river run, [00:30.80] [00:33.55]just a simple little house in California. [00:35.03] [00:38.66]The bank said, 鈥渟on, what do you do?鈥, [00:40.92]I said I play guitar down at the Rendez-vous, [00:42.00] [00:43.76]He said, 鈥渂oy you got to be a big time actor or a corporate lawyer, [00:50.00] [00:52.85]if you want to buy a house in California!鈥 [00:57.07] [00:57.82]{Refrain} [00:58.04]鈥楥ause it don鈥檛 snow and it don鈥檛 rain, [01:00.29]ever鈥 day looks the same, [01:01.08] [01:02.82]and before you pack your thangs, let me warn ya鈥, [01:04.83]It鈥檚 the land of milk and honey, [01:07.45]but you better have good money, [01:09.39]If you鈥檙e lookin鈥 for a house in California! [01:12.00] [01:21.15]Well I got me a job, my wife鈥檚 got two, [01:23.71] [01:24.28]kids flippin鈥 burgers at the local drive-thru, [01:26.09] [01:26.59]We all doin鈥 everything we can, [01:28.71] [01:30.96]we savin鈥 for a house in California. [01:33.00] [01:36.08]Then one day the bank starts shakin鈥, [01:38.52]the sky went dark and the earth was a quakin鈥 [01:40.00] [01:41.18]Then o鈥檙 night, it be came alarmin鈥, [01:43.93] [01:45.81]how the price dropped on a house in California! [01:48.00] [01:50.41]Well it needs a roof and it needs a floor, [01:52.00] [01:53.26]yeah yeah, it鈥檚 a real fixer-upper, [01:55.32] [01:55.88]Friends back east said somebody should have warned [01:58.32] [02:00.32]ya, about buyin鈥 my big house in California. [02:03.14] [02:04.01]{Refrain} [02:04.05] [02:04.79]鈥楥ause it don鈥檛 snow and it don鈥檛 rain, [02:07.55]ever鈥 day looks the same, [02:09.43] [02:10.24]and before you pack your thangs, let me warn ya鈥, [02:14.87]It鈥檚 the land of milk and honey, [02:16.00] [02:17.71]but you better have good money, [02:19.84]If you鈥檙e lookin鈥 for a house in California!