There was a
California earthquake in the
year 83
Shipped the living day
lights out of the
Owens
County city.
Weren't a building still upstanding
when the dust had cleared away?
Just a moment in the distance,
all the way to
San
Andrés
Well,
Sherman
Buck was driving his old
mule into town
When
Biggin' came, it shook so hard that
it knocked him to the ground
Walter opened up a hole so big,
he just knew that his time was up
And it swallowed up
that poor old you
And it just missed your love
California earthquake
You just don't know what you've done
We might fall off in the ocean, oh
But you'll never make us your own
You're a partner to the devil
We ain't afraid of him
And we'll build ourselves another town
So you can tear it down again
Then it came the quake of 1989,
that leveled the mission crate
The earth was like an ocean churn
ing the waves of 20 feet
I thought it sounded like
a thousand trains
Was going underground
I cleaned across the
sandwalking
And folks heard that mournful sound
California earthquake,
you just don't know what you've done
We might fall off in the ocean,
but you'd never make us your own
You're a partner to the devil
We're being afraid of him
And we'll build ourselves another town
So you can tear it down again
Then it came one day, the
Holocaust
And it rocked the
Frisco
Bay
Miles of walls came tumbling down
Like on
Jericho that day
I'd near everything
that the earthquake missed
If only it finds you
just left them the smoke and the ashes of the
dreams that they had feared
California, earthquake year,
just don't know what you've done
We might fall off in the ocean,
Lord, but you'll never make us do
You can pardon or do the devil,
but we ain't afraid of him
And we'll build ourselves another town
So you can tear it down again
We'll build ourselves another town
So you can tear it down again
you