San Fernando valley

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1. I'm packing my grip, and I'm leaving today,

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‘cause I'm taking a trip, California way.

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I'm gonna settle down and never more roam,

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and make the San Fernando Valley my home.

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2. I'll forget my sins, I'll be making new friends,

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where the west begins, and the sunset ends,

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‘cause I've decided where yours truly should be,

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and it's the San Fernando Valley for me.

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I think that I'm safe in statin' she will be waitin',

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when my lonely journey is done.

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And kindly old Reverend Thomas made us a promise,

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he will make the two of us one.

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3. So I'm hittin' the trail to the cow country,

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you can forward my mail care of RFD.

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I'm gonna settle down and never more roam,

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and make the San Fernando Valley my home.

+ repeat verse 3 as instrumental (2x)

+ CHORUS + repeat verse 3

(orig. = capo 3rd) (Roy Rogers)