Joanna Newsom - In california
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Tuning: E A D G B E
Tuning is 1 1/2 steps down from standard.
During the verses, you can also use the open D string as an alternative base note with the A. For the bridges and
choruses, there is no real finger pattern. Sometimes I play all strings at once, or pick out a few, you can
listen to what Joanna plays and mess around with it as you like.
Chords:
E0 A0 C#m4 B2 E7sus4x D5 Am0 F1 G3 A#1 C3
0 2 5 4 3 7 1 1 3 3 5
1 2 6 4 2 7 2 2 4 3 5
2 2 6 4 2 7 2 3 5 3 5
2 0 4 2 0 5 0 3 5 1 3
0 x x x x x x 1 3 x x
[Intro]
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(Verse 1) My heart became a drunken runt
(Verse 2) My home on the old Milk Lake
(Verse 4) When I called you, you, little one
(Verse 6) My heart, I wear you down, I know
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(Verse 1) On the day I sunk in this shunt
(Verse 2) Where the darkness does fall so fast it feels like
(Verse 4) In a bad way, did you love me? Do you spite me?
(Verse 6) Gotta think straight, keep a clean plate
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(Verse 1) To tap me clean of all the wonder
(Verse 2) Some kind of mistake
(Verse 4) Time will tell if I can be well
(Verse 6) Keep from wearing down. If I lose my head
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(Verse 1) And the sorrows I have seen since I left my home
(Verse 2) Just like they told you it would, just like the Tulgeywood
(Verse 4) And rise to meet you rightly
(Verse 6) Just where am I going to lay it?
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(Verse 3) When I came into my land
(Verse 5) While moving across my land
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(Verse 3) I did not understand
(Verse 5) Brandishing themselves like a burning branch
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(Verse 3) Neither dry rot, nor the burn pile, nor the bark beetle, nor the dry well
(Verse 5) Advance the tallow-colored walleyed deer
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(Verse 3) Nor the black bear
(Verse 5) Quiet as gondoliers
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[Bridge]
But there is anoEther
Who is a little Aolder
When I broke my C#mbone
He carried me up from the BriveArside
To spend my Elife in spitting-distance
Of the love Athat I have known
I must stay C#mhere, in an endless evBentAide
And if you come and Esee me
You will upset the oArder
You cannot come and C#msee me
For I set myself aBparAt
But when you come and Esee me
In CalifoArniE7sus4a A
You cross C#mthe border oAf my EheartB
[Pre-Chorus]
Well, I have sown unEtidy furrows
D‘Cross my soul but I am Astill a cowardAm
Content to see my gEarden grow
So Dsweet and full of someone Aelse’s flowerAms
[Chorus]
Sometimes I can alC#mmost feel the BpoweAr Am
Sometimes I am C#mso in love with ByouA Am
Like a little C#mclock that trembles on the eBdge of the AhourAm
Only ever crC#mying out “cuckoo—Boo--Aoo”
[Verse 4]
[Verse 5]
[Bridge]
While I wait all nEight for you,
In CalifAornia
Watching the C#mfox pick off my goldfishB
From their sAorry golden state
And I am no Elonger
Afraid of anAythE7sus4ing A
Save the liC#mfe that, Ahere, Eawaits B
[Pre-Chorus]
I don’t belong to Eanyone
My Dheart is heavy as an Aoil drumAm
And I don’t want to Ebe alone
My Dheart is yellow as an Aear of cornAm
And I have torn my Esoul apart from
DPulling artlessly with fAool commandsAm
[Chorus]
Some nights I just C#mnever go to sleepB at all aAnd I standAm
Shaking in the doC#morway like a sentinBel all aAloneAm
Bracing like the C#mbow upon the ship and fuBlly abandAoningAm
Any thought of anyC#mwhere but home, mBy homeA Am
Sometimes I can C#malmost feel the pBoweAr Am
And I doC#m love ByoAu Am
Is it only C#mtiming that has made it Bsuch a dark AhourAm?
Only ever C#mchiming out “cuckoo—Boo—Aoo”
My C#mcuckoo Bcuckoo, Aoh!
[Verse 6]
[Outro]
For it haFs half-rGuined A#me to be haCnging Daround
Here among the Fdaphne blGooming A#out of the Cbig brDown
I am Fnative Gto it, A#but I’m CoverDgrown
I have chokeFd my Groots on the earA#th, as rich Cas roDe here
Down… in California
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