California Coastline - Manfred Mann's Earth Band

Took off in San Francisco

Hitching up 101

Ended up on a flat bed Chevy

Breaking at the setting sun

Slept all night in a (coal hole?)

Thought I’d nearly freeze alive

'Cause all I had was a US blanket

Dated 1945

On the California coastline

Trying to have myself a good time

On the California coastline

Trying to have myself a good time

Got loose from jail in three days

(Sheriff had locked my base?)

(Maybe) … (for Utah?)

… the human race

And if I live to be 100

Ain’t never going back again

Couldn’t think of a colder place to visit

(Or an easier place to sin?)

On the California coastline

Trying to have myself a good time

On the California coastline

Trying to have myself a good time

… (out of?) nowhere

Somewhere west of everybody else

I’m … (out of?) nowhere

Somewhere west of everybody else