In California Chords

Capo 3rd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

A: x 0 x(6)5 5

Am x 0 x(5)5 5

E/Amaj7: 0 x 6 6 5 x

E/Aaug: 0 x 2 3 2 x

A Dmajb5 A

A Dmajb5 A

AmyDmajb5 heart becAame a drunken runt

Amon the day i sA/Dunk in this shunt

Ato tap me clean

Asus2b5of all the wonder

 and the sorrow i have seA/Gen

 since i left my home A

AmyDmajb5 home onA the old milk lake

 where the dAmarkness does fall so A/Dfast

 it feels like some kind of mistake A

 just lAsus2b5ike they told you it woA/Guld

 just like they Atold you it would

E/Bwhen i came into myE lA7Mand

 i did E/Gnot underE/Astand

 neither E/Gdry rot or the burn pile or the EbaAaugrk

beetle or the dry well

 or EthAme black Ebale

 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

 you croG♯mss the bordeF♯r of my Bheart

 well, i have sown untBidy furrows 'cB7ross my soul

 but i am sEtill a coward Em

 content to see my Bgarden grow so B7sweet

 and fEull of someoneEm else'F♯s flowers

 sometimes i can G♯malmost feel the powerF♯ E

 sF♯ometimes i am G♯mso in love with youF♯ E

 lF♯ike a little cG♯mlock that trembles on the edge oF♯f the Ehour

 oF♯nly ever G♯mcalling out "cuck-oo, hoo-oF♯o, hoo-Eoo"

 wF♯hen i AcaDmajb5lled you

 youA little one

 in a Ambad way

 did you A/Dlove me?

do you spite me?

Atime will tell

 if i Asus2b5can be wA/Gell

 and rise to Ameet you rightly

E/Bwhen moving across EmyA7M land

E/Gbrandishing themselves like a burning branchE/A

E/Gadvance the tallow-colored, waEllAaug-eyed deer

EquAmiet as gEondoliers

 well, i wait all Bnight for you in CaElifornia

 watching the G♯mfox pick off my goldfish

 from their sorry, gEolden state

 and i am noB longer afraid of Eanything

 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

 some nights i just G♯mnever go to sleep at all F♯

 andE i stand

 sF♯haking in the dG♯moorway like a sF♯entinel, all alEone

 bF♯racing like the G♯mbow upon a ship F♯

 and fulEly abandoning

 aF♯ny thought of G♯manywhere but home

 mF♯y hoEme

 sF♯ometimes i can G♯malmost feel theF♯ poweEr

 aF♯nd i G♯mdo loF♯ve yEou

 iF♯s it only G♯mtiming that has made it suF♯ch a dark Ehour

 oF♯nly ever cG♯mhiming out "cuck-oo, hF♯oo-oo, hEoo-oo"

F♯

AmyDmajb5 heart

 i wear yAou down

Ami know

 gotta think A/Dstraight

keep a clean plate

Akeep from wearing down

Asus2b5if i lose my A/Ghay

 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