Arizona Shining Songtext
von Briscoe

Leather jacket blues
Got it on the way to San Jose
Seven hour drive
I got a little time to kill today
I figured I could call you
I figured you could help to pass my time
Ain′t got too many blue-eyed women
Picking up my line

I've never been for talking, man
I′ve just got one more thing I need to say

Oh, Arizona shining in the summertime sun
Gets a poor boy feeling like he's rolling in the mud
And one of these fine days I'll slither back in my den
But it feels so nice loving life again
Arizona shining in


Stopping with the sun tonight
Figured I could find myself a game
But out here on the border states
The big boys, they don′t play
So I sat up on the roof
And dealt my cards to that motel
I′ve got one or two good ways to win
But 18 ways to fail

I've never been for crying, man
I just got one more tear I need to shed

Oh, Arizona shining in the summertime sun
Gets a poor boy feeling like he′s rolling in the mud
And one of these fine days I'll slither back in my den
But it feels so nice loving life again
Arizona shining in

Saguaros stand like soldiers lined up on the rocky hills
They grow another inch or two for every year they kill
I never have seen nothing stand so tall or stand so proud
Hidden in their corner of that Arizona ground

And I never did make time to sit aside and drink my wine
But I wish you could′ve seen the way
The sun was falling down today
It's easy on my heart and on my mind
Arizona shining


Oh, Arizona shining in the summertime sun
Gets a poor boy feeling like he′s rolling in the mud
And one of these fine days I'll slither back in my den
But it feels so nice loving life again
Arizona shining in