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IN CALIFORNIA This one you can actually almost replicate on guitar. When playing, keep thumbing the A to keep that open C note, and play the bottom two strings with your index and middle I can’t be bothered tabbing it, so here at the chords: A/Dmajb5: x 0 x x 9 10 A: x 0 x(6)5 5 Am x 0 x(5)5 5 A/D: x 0 x 2 3 2 Asus2b5: x 0 x 4 4 5 A/G: x 0 x 4 3 3 E/B: 0 x 9 8 7 x E/Amaj7: 0 x 6 6 5 x E/G: 0 x 2 4 3 x E/A: 0 x 7 6 5 x E/Aaug: 0 x 2 3 2 x E: 0 2 2 1 0 0 CAPO 3 A/Dmajb5, A A/Dmajb5, A A/Dmajb5 A my heart became a drunken runt
Amon the day i sA/Dunk in this shunt Ato tap me clean Asus2b5 of all the wonder and thA/Ge sorrow i have seen since iA left my home A/Dmajb5, A my home on the old milk lake where the dAmarkness does fall so A/Dfast it feels likAe some kind of mistake Asus2b5 A/G just like they told you it would just like they Atold you it would E/B E/Amaj7 when i came into my land
i did E/Gnot underE/Astand E/G E/Aaug neither dry rot or the burn pile or the bark beetle or the dry well E/Am E or the black bale
but there is Banother who is a little Eolder when i broke my G#mbone, he carried me up from the riverEside to spend my Blife in spitting distance of the lEove that i have known i must stay G#mhere in an endless eEveningtide and if you come and Bsee me you'll upset the Eorder you cannot come and G#msee me for i set myself Eapart but when you come and Bsee me in ECalifornia G#m (F#) B you cross the border of my heart
well, i have sown untBidy furrows 'cB7ross my soul but i am sEtill a coward Em content to see my Bgarden grow so B7sweet
E Em (F#) and full of someone else's flowers G#m (F#) E sometimes i can almost feel the power (F#) G#m (F#) E sometimes i am so in love with you (F#) G#m (F#) E like a little clock that trembles on the edge of the hour (F#) G#m (F#) E only ever calling out "cuck-oo, hoo-oo, hoo-oo" (F#) A/Dmajb5 when i called you
youA little one in a Ambad way did you A/Dlove me? do you spite me? Atime will tell Asus2b5 A/G if i can be well and rise to Ameet you rightly
E/B E/Amaj7 when moving across my land
E/Gbrandishing themsE/Aelves like a burning branch E/G E/Aaug advance the tallow-colored, wall-eyed deer E/Am E quiet as gondoliers
well, i wait all Bnight for you in CaElifornia watching the G#mfox pick off my goldfish from their sorry, gEolden state B E (sus4) and i am no longer afraid of anything save the G#mlife that here aEwaits
i don't belong to Banyone my B7heart is heavy as an Eoil drum Em and i don't want to Bbe alone my heaB7rt is yellow as an eaEr of corn Em and i have torn my Bsoul apart from B7pulling artlessly with Efool commandsEm G#m (F#) some nights i just never go to sleep at all andE i stand (F#) G#m (F#) E shaking in the doorway like a sentinel, all alone (F#) G#m (F#) bracing like the bow upon a ship and fulEly abandoning (F#) G#m any thought of anywhere but home (F#) E my home (F#) G#m (F#) E sometimes i can almost feel the power (F#) G#m (F#) E and i do love you (F#) G#m (F#) E is it only timing that has made it such a dark hour (F#) G#m (F#) E only ever chiming out "cuck-oo, hoo-oo, hoo-oo"
F# *stabs* G#m (F#) E (F#) cu-ckoo, cu-ckoo, koo, ha-a, ha-hour, ha-a, ha-a G#m (F#) E (F#) cu-ckoo, cu-ckoo, koo, ha-a, ha-hour, ha-a, ha-a G#m (F#) E (F#) cu-ckoo, cu-ckoo, koo, ha-a, ha-hour, ha-a, ha-a G#m (F#) E (F#) cu-ckoo, cu-ckoo, koo, ha-a, ha-hour, ha-a, ha-a A/Dmajb5 my heart
i wear yAou down Ami know gotta think A/Dstraight keep a clean plate Akeep from wearing down Asus2b5 A/G if i lose my hay just where am i gAoing to lay?
for it Ghas half wAho nFeed to be haGnging aAround Here among the GDaphne Ablooming oFut of the biGg gAround i'm a Gnative Atoo, Fbut iG'm oAvergrown i am Gsure myA roots are Fnear Ghere as rich as rAope hereG down F in CaliAfornia