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Mendocino
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A ballad about coming home to the Mendocino Coast.
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Acoustic rock and folk rock with country, blues, and American Songbook influences.
Formerly "Dr. C and the Stratocats," I'm now on a solo career as "Dr. C," but I had to change my stage name here because someone else had already claimed it. My music strives for melody above all else; I strive to make my songs memorable, so you can whistle a tune immediately. I see melody as the element most lacking in contemporaryr music. I love Sinatra and the Beatles, Gordon Lightfoot, Paul Simon, anyone who can write a memorable "tune."
Song Info
Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Rock
Charts
Peak #424
Peak in subgenre #64
Author
C. E. Chaffin
Rights
2010
Uploaded
March 17, 2009
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MP3 3.1 MB • 128 kbps • 3:21
Story behind the song
While traveling back from LA I pulled off the freeway to scribble down the lyrics of this song, about my longing for the NorCal coast.
Lyrics
Mendocino It's a long, long way to home With my memories on my back It's a long, long way to home To the trestles and the track If I'd known what I know now I'd have never left this town Where the pines run to the sea And my heart will always be Mendocino, Mendocino, Mendocino There's a fortune to be made Where the building rise so high And the pigeons congregate But the lawyers rule the sky. Walking in my three piece suit I could hear the distant flute Where the cliffs and ocean met I could never once forget Mendocino, Mendocino, Mendocino In a universe of space It is good to know your place Can't be measured by a clock Only by the waves and rock. In a skyscraper of stone I was never so alone Staring out at city lights Longing for the campfire nights-- Mendocino, Mendocino, Mendocino.
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