[thechat] any evolters in California (speaking of beer-volts, cheese&wine-volts)?

[Erika Meyer]

It's okay to hate Bakersfield, Marlene.

I've never been there, don't even know where it is, really.  You
know: "you don't know me but you don't like me..."

I think it's just one of those kind of cities.

Erika

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Streets Of Bakersfield
- Dwight Yoakam

I came here looking for something
I couldn't find anywhere else
Hey, I'm not trying to be nobody
Just want a chance to be myself
I've done a thousand miles of thumbin'
I've worn holes in both my heels
Trying to find me something better
On the streets of Bakersfield

CHORUS:
You don't know me, but you don't like me
You say you care less how I feel
But how many of you that sit and judge me
Have ever walked the streets of Bakersfield?

Spent some time in San Francisco
Spent a night there in the can
They threw this drunk man in my jail cell
Took fifteen dollars from that man
Left him my watch and my old house key
Don't want folks thinkin' that I'd steal
Then I thanked him as I was leaving
And I headed for the streets of Bakersfield

CHORUS x 2

How many of you that sit and judge me
Have ever walked the streets of Bakersfield?

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>>Let's meet in Bakersfield!
>
>Please, anywhere but Bakersfield. And definitely *not* in one of
>their diners. Sorry, it was just the most unpleasant place I
>ate/stayed on my cross-country drive.
>
>Marlene
>(hoping it's not your hometown)

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