{"id":31898,"date":"2026-06-27T22:52:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T22:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/?p=31898"},"modified":"2026-06-27T22:52:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T22:52:36","slug":"out-in-the-desert-too-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/out-in-the-desert-too-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Out in the Desert Too Long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Key of C<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">You&#8217;ve Been Out In The Desert Too Long, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Rick Nestler, 2006<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\"><u>CHORUS<\/u><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">You&#8217;ve been out in the desert too long , when 110 degrees makes you feel like you belong <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">You start to love the sandstorms that&#8217;s blowing so strong , You have been out in the desert too long.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">My sister plants her flowers just to watch them die, When her Black Widow took sick, all she did was cry<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">She built a cricket feeder just to hear their song, She&#8217;s been out in the desert too long<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">I&#8217;ve got a brother, he&#8217;s lived here most his life, When the mercury drops to 60, he grabs a blanket &amp; his wife<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">He swears that he&#8217;s freezing, he thinks there&#8217;s something wrong, He&#8217;s been out in the desert too long<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">[CHORUS]<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">Now Mom&#8217;s given up daily dusting, she just shovels once a week<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">she says without humidity you just don&#8217;t feel the heat<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">She swears she hates snow storms so much she&#8217;d rather fight King Kong<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">She&#8217;s been out in the desert too long<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">Now my dad he loves the Southwest because of the cuisine<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">For breakfast it&#8217;s a warm beer, Burritos, and cold beans<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">A handful of Chili Peppers seems to help his day along, &#8216;Cause he&#8217;s been out in the desert too long<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">[CHORUS]<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">I ain&#8217;t complaining, that&#8217;s not what I&#8217;m here to do<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">When there&#8217;s snow storms flyin&#8217; back east, I&#8217;m headed out here too<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">I love them pretty women, \u2018specially when they\u2019re wearing thongs<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">I&#8217;ve been out in the desert too long<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">[CHORUS]<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key of C You&#8217;ve Been Out In The Desert Too Long, Rick Nestler, 2006 CHORUS You&#8217;ve been out in the desert too long , when 110 degrees makes you feel like you belong You start to love the sandstorms that&#8217;s blowing so strong , You have been out in the &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/out-in-the-desert-too-long\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Out in the Desert Too Long<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31899,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31898\/revisions\/31899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}