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California Earthquake (A Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On) easy guitar chords by 
Rodney Crowell
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Intro 1
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Em
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Verse 1
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There was a California
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earthquake in the year of '83
It shook the living daylights out of the
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D
Owens County Seat
G
There weren't a building still left standing
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G
when the dust had cleared away
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D
Just a rumble in the distance all the
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D
way to San Andrea
Verse 2
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Sherman Buck was driving in
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G
his old mule into town
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G
When a big one came that shook so hard
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D
that it knocked him to the ground
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Lord, they opened up a hole so big
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G
that he knew his time was up
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Lord, it swallowed up that poor old mule,
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G
and it just missed Sherman Buck
Verse 3
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California earthquake,
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you just don't know what you've done
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We might fall off in the ocean, Lord,
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D
you'll never make us run
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You're a partner of the devil,
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Lord, we ain't afraid of him
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We'll build ourselves another town,
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so you can tear it down again
Interlude 1
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D
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Em
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Then
Verse 4
came the quake of '99 that
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Em
levelled Mission Creek
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Em
The earth was like an ocean churning
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with waves of 20 feet
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Lord, it sounded like a thousand trains
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were screaming underground
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Clean across to San Joachim,
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folks heard that mournful sound
Verse 5
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California earthquake,
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you just don't know what you've done
Em
We might fall off in the ocean, Lord,
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D
you'll never make us run
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You're a partner of the devil, Lord,
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G
we ain't afraid of him
Em
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G
We'll build ourselves another town,
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so you can tear it down again
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D
Verse 6
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Then came one day the holocaust, Lord,
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on rocks of Francisco Bay
Miles of walls came a- tumbin' down,
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G
just like Jericho on that day
Might near everything the earthquake missed,
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a holy fire consumed
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Just left 'em whole in smokin' ashes,
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what a dream can't be ruined
Verse 7
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California earthquake,
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G
you just don't know what you've done
You might lay us 'neat the ground some day,
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but you'll never make us run
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You're a partner of the devil, Lord,
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G
we ain't afraid of him
Em
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G
We'll build ourselves another town,
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G
so you can tear it down again
Verse 8
Em
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G
Lord, we'll build ourselves another town,
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D
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G
so you can tear it down again
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