Manfred Mann's Earth Band California Coastline

Took off in San Francisco
Hitching up 101
Ended up on a flatbed (Chevy?)
(Breaking at? Thinking of?) the setting sun
Slept all night in a (coal hole?)
Thought I'd nearly freeze alive
'Cause all I had was a US blanket
Dated 1945

On the California coastline
Trying to have myself a good time
On the California coastline
Trying to have myself a good time

Got loose from jail in three days
(Sheriff had locked my base?)
(Maybe) .......... (for) Utah
.............. the human race
And if I live to be 100
Ain't never going back again
(Couldn't think of) a colder place (to visit)
(Or an easier place to?) .....

On the California coastline
Trying to have myself a good time
On the California coastline
Trying to have myself a good time

........ (out of) nowhere
Somewhere west of everybody else
I'm .......... (out of) nowhere
Somewhere west of everybody else