In search of lyrics to Mary McCaslin's song California Zephyr. I searched on the Cat and got the link to a song by Jim Ringer, her singing partner, then the site crashed. btw, there is at least one album of Jim Ringer recorded by the recording company owned by Sandy and Caroline Patton... can't remember the label's name... or the album....anybody know?

here is what i have ... sketchy, but many lyrics are here:

California Zephyr
(Mary McCaslin)


Sunrise
Where once stood a small tienda
And stucco
We had
But here and there stands a grand adobe hacienda
Now and then a grave yard with Spanish sounding names
The highways cut the trees down
And the outlaws stole the land
And the California Zephyr lies a sleeping
And we’re told that days are numbered
And you can almost hear the earth beneath you weaping
But when you standin’ by the trestle
Can’t you hear a ghostly whistle
And the breathing of an engine pulling into Monterey
It’s the California Zephyr whose headlights
The California Day
Growing fields and pastures
For miles Salinas
Too soon the rows of houses
Will lay claim to all you see
Who can show their children
Those small adobe houses
And the families toiling in their fields beside the sea
Evening lights of San Jose
Once humbled by the stars
Strolling guitar ringing
They’ve all vanished with the
Beyond lights of shining
But the memory sets the rusty rails a singing
And when you’re standing by the trestle
Can’t you hear a ghostly whistle
And the breathing of an engine pulling into San Jose
It’s the California Zephyr whose headlights have forever
Burned its brand upon The California
Southern California
Where the hills roll to the sea
And the schemes of men of vision
There’s a shroud upon the valley
Where a blue sky used to be
And the oil along the shoreline covers up the golden sand
But the city of the Angels and the path the padres trod
Somehow from Days of old
And Spanish tongue still whispers
To a Spanish speaking God
And the ghosts of dreamers roam the hills of gold
And when you’re standing by the trestle
Can’t you hear a ghostly whistle
And the breathing of an engine pulling into old L.A.
It’s the California Zephyr whose headlights have forever
Burned its brand upon the California

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