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When I was a kid and the summers were free????? D We'd pile in a car with no A.C.AAnd point it east into the heatEAcross the Central Valley? ???? AWe'd drive our mama near insane????? D 'Til she'd pull off of that big four lane Songtexte??? AAnd we started up the winding road E??????? ATo Val's cabin About half-way to the mountain topWe'd pull off the road and come to a stopBy a rustic cabin with the shutters lockedSure, it was cooler, but still damn hot But the pine and scotch-broom were in the airThe river was just a few miles from thereJust a ways down the winding road? Past Val's cabin Chorus:??? ???? DAnd the river runs through all my memoriesA???????????????????????? F#mTwisting and plunging be-tween the treesBmSliding past great granite bouldersEsmooth and warm as giants' shoulders ??????????? DNow they've chained her and they've changed her?????? A?????????????? F#mSo the fish can't even claim her??? AAnd I can't find the winding road ?? E???? ATo Val's cabin On a long and dusty old dirt trackWe'd walk to the river and then trudge backStopping to talk to every horse,Every friendly dog, and every cat In the water ditch along the roadWe'd hide from the sun and dangle our toesThen we'd start up the winding road To Val's cabin Chorus Now twenty years later I'm climbing that hillRoaring up the highway past SoulsbyvilleIt's an oven outside, but it's cool in hereIn this air-conditioned automobile It's four-lane concrete all the wayThey've straightened the curves and smoothed the gradesThey've covered up the winding roadTo Val's cabin Chorus Aus Songtexte Mania