A song about travelling around California in 1996 with the wife and kids and my old mate from school Mick Dudas who was living out there. I did a few acoustic gigs and basically saw and experienced things I'd only ever dreamed about. I got a copy of On The Road by Jack Kerouac from the City Lights bookshop in San Francisco and re-read it while I was out there 'on the road'...this song is about that...hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it :-).
lyrics
Searching for Sal
Grabbed my first Burrito on the way to meet a friend,
Done two weeks of travellin' the California conveyor belt,
The wife got cramp, the kids got sick,
Oh my what have I done to Mick,
Well since I've been home I've been searching for Sal.
The Bay was everything to me, you know a place that I could roam,
Between the books of the City Lights you know I'd happily make my home,
Well the sand swept dunes of Monterey,
They looked so pretty to me that day,
But since I've been home I've been searching for Sal.
(Chorus)
Well I'm searching for Sal,
Yeah I'm searching for Sal, Yeah Sal,
Well I'm on my way again, take me home, take me home now.
Well with a beat up old guitar I walked the Campbell railroad track,
And on the corner of the street I sat and the sun burnt on my back,
You'd got the Denny's Diners and the Seven 11's,
Well I think I've died and gone to heaven,
I'm travellin' round just searching for Sal.
(Chorus)
GUITAR
PIANO
Now I'm home and looking back at my time on the road,
Well it was always a dream to me - Dream On a song I wrote,
We'd got the Santa Cruz surfer's shack,
Well there was me and old Jack Kerouac,
Travellin' round just searching for Sal,
Laying on a beach just searching for Sal,
And even when I go to work I'm searching for Sal,
Yeah Sal,
Well I'm on my way again, take me home, take me home now.
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