It's raining on the west coast snowing in Topeka The weatherman says there's ice below Tennessee There's a flood out in California and a drought way down in Texas And in Maine the fog's so thick that you can't see But the sun shines bright in Acapulco There's no snow in Old Monterey There's no ice down in Nogales I say oh Lord there's gotta be a better way I see a loser in my mirror got a devil in my brain And the woman I've been loving she moved on She left lonesome in my bedroom and dirty dishes in my sink Guess she didn't like the words to my country song But the sun shines bright in Acapulco There's no snow in Old Monterey There's no ice down in Nogales I say oh Lord there's gotta be a better way I’ll mail a check for my kids to Joanie buy a backpack and a hat Get a map that shows all the highways heading south I got no friends to call there ain’t nobody left at all I’m gonna be up and in not down and out But the sun shines bright in Acapulco There's no snow in Old Monterey There's no ice down in Nogales I say oh Lord there's gotta be a better way But the sun shines bright in Acapulco There's no snow in Old Monterey There's no ice down in Nogales I say oh Lord there's gotta be a better way