Joanna Newsom - In california
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[Intro]
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My heart became a drunken runt
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on the day I sunk in this shunt
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to tap me clean of all the wonder and the sorrow
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I have seen since I left my home
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My home, on the old Milk Lake,
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where the darkness does fall so fast, it feels like some
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kind of mistake just like they told you it would
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just like the Tulgeywood).
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When I came into my land, I did not understand:
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neither dry rot, nor the burn pile, nor the bark-beetle, nor the dry well,
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Ebnor the black Gbear.
but there isD another
who is a little Golder
when i broke my Bmbone,
he carried me up from the riverGside
to spend my Dlife in spitting distance
of the lGove that i have known
i must stay Bmhere
in an endless eGveningtide
and if you come and Dsee me
you'll upset the Gorder
you cannot come and Bmsee me
for i set myself Gapart
but when you come and Dsee me
in GCalifornia
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you cross the border of my heart
well, i have sown untDidy furrows 'cD7ross my soul
but i am sGtill a coward Gm
content to see my Dgarden grow so D7sweet
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and full of someone else's flowers
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sometimes i can almost feel the power
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sometimes i am so in love with you
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like a little clock that trembles on the edge of the hour
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only ever calling out "cuck-oo, hoo-oo, hoo-oo"
When I called you, you, little one, in a bad
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way, did you love me? Do you spite me?
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Time will tell if I can be well,
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and rise to meet you rightly.
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While, moving across my land, brandishing themselves like a burning branch,
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advance the tallow-colored, walleyed deer,
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Ebquiet as gGondoliers,
while, i wait all night for you in California
watching the Bmfox pick off my goldfish
from their sorry, gGolden state
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and i am no longer afraid of anything
save the Bmlife that here Gawaits
i don't belong to Danyone
my D7heart is heavy as an Goil drum Gm
and i don't want to Dbe alone
my heaD7rt is yellow as an eaGr of corn Gm
and i have torn my Dsoul apart
from D7pulling artlessly with Gfool commandsGm
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some nights i just never go to sleep at all
andG i stand
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shaking in the doorway like a sentinel, all alone
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bracing like the bow upon a ship
and fulGly abandoning
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any thought of anywhere but home
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my home
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sometimes i can almost feel the power
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and i do love you
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is it only timing that has made it such a dark hour
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only ever chiming out "cuck-oo, hoo-oo, hoo-oo"
^ for the backing harp pattern here I came up with this:
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cu-ckoo, cu-ckoo, koo, ha-a, ha-hour, ha-a, ha-a
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cu-ckoo, cu-ckoo, koo, ha-a, ha-hour, ha-a, ha-a
Bm (A) G (A)
cu-ckoo, cu-ckoo, koo, ha-a, ha-hour, ha-a, ha-a
Bm (A) G (A)
cu-ckoo, cu-ckoo, koo, ha-a, ha-hour, ha-a, ha-a
My heart, I wear you down, I know.
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Gotta think straight, keep a clean plate;
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keep from wearing down. If I lose my head,
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just where am I going to lay it?
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for Bbit has halfC whoAb need to be hBbanging aCround
Here among the BbDaphne blooCmingAb out of the bBbig grounCd
i'm a Bbnative too,C butAb i'm overgrowBbn C
i am Bbsure my rooCts aAbre near here Bbas rich Cas rope C
hereBb down Ab
in CaliCfornia