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Cold In California

from Anywhere But Here by Malcolm MacWatt

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Me and Jessie Ray been best friends forever

Grew up in the same little town in Indiana

So when Jessie said that we should go digging for our fortune

I bought a pan and shovel and westwards we went rolling

I’ve been told that it gets cold in California



So we staked out our claims right next to each other

And Jessie spent his days working on the river

And I spent all my money on women and cheap whiskey

I wasted all my time hungover and hungry

Now I know that it gets cold in California



Then one day it came, a whooping and a screaming

And I saw Jessie Ray laughing loud and leaping

In the morning sun bright gold was gleaming yellow

And green-eyed envy woke up in my belly slow

My jealousy runs cold in California



He always had more than his fair share of lucky

Lucky with love cos he was tall and pretty

Lucky with fate cos his mum and daddy loved him

And I was just Jessie's less than lucky friend

But his luck was growing cold in California



Well I shot Jessie dead with his daddy’s 45

I left his body there face down by the riverside

And I put all, his hard-earned gold straight into my pockets

Packed my bags and headed home a richer man with prospects

And I left his body cold in California

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from Anywhere But Here, released November 6, 2018

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Malcolm MacWatt London, UK

“MacWatt will doubtless be considered among the best of the new breed of folksingers and songwriters, who speak of the past as a way to perhaps understand it and move forward” Stephen Rapid, Lonesome Highway

“He shines as a singer and he shines as an interpreter of the eternal folk songbook,” Tom Brosseau, The Great American Folk Show, North Dakota
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