BALLAD OF THE SAN ANDREAS
Lyrics and music by Mel Zucker
Arranged and Performed by Lisa Sanchez
Pilarcitos knows how it goes
‘Twas the old plate boundary
Pilarcitos Fault went quiet
The fault zone moved from Linda Mar
Not so very far
San Andreas boundary
Shearing, sliding, creeping, gliding
Sometimes overriding
Seafloor spreading still presiding
The edge of the Pacific Plate
Slides past the Golden Gate,
San Andreas boundary
In the City, what a pity
How the fault destroyed it
San Francisco caught on fire
Liquefaction of the ground
Water pipes broken down
San Andreas boundary
Building, growing, never knowing,
When a quake will strike us
Retrofitting schools and houses
Better reinforce things now
Engineers show you how
San Andreas boundary