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California Earthquake chords by
The Seldom Scene
The Seldom Scene

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Verse 1
Gsus2
G
Bm
A
D

G
D
A
D

There was a

California earthquake in the
G
Gsus2
Dsus4

year 83
D
G

Shipped the living day
Bm

lights out of the
Asus4

Owens
A

County city.
D

Weren't a building still upstanding
Bm
G

when the dust had cleared away?
D
Dsus4
D
G
Bm

Just a moment in the distance,
A

all the way to
Asus4

San
D

Andrés
A

Well,
D

Sherman

Buck was driving his old
G

mule into town
Dsus4
D

When

Biggin' came, it shook so hard that
E
A

it knocked him to the ground
D

Walter opened up a hole so big,
G
D

he just knew that his time was up
Dsus4

And it swallowed up
G
Bm

that poor old you
A
D

And it just missed your love
G

California earthquake
D

You just don't know what you've done
Bm

We might fall off in the ocean, oh
A

But you'll never make us your own
D
Bm

You're a partner to the devil
G
D

We ain't afraid of him
G
Bm

And we'll build ourselves another town
A
Asus4
D
A

So you can tear it down again
D

Then it came the quake of 1989,
G
D

that leveled the mission crate

The earth was like an ocean churn
Bm
E

ing the waves of 20 feet
A
D

I thought it sounded like

a thousand trains
G

Was going underground
D
Dsus4

I cleaned across the
G
Bm

sandwalking
D
A
D

And folks heard that mournful sound
G

California earthquake,
D

you just don't know what you've done
Bm
D
Bm

We might fall off in the ocean,
A

but you'd never make us your own
D
Bm

You're a partner to the devil
G
D

We're being afraid of him
G
Bm

And we'll build ourselves another town
A
D
A

So you can tear it down again
D
A

Then it came one day, the
D

Holocaust
G

And it rocked the

Frisco
D

Bay
Bm

Miles of walls came tumbling down

Like on
A

Jericho that day
Asus4
A
D

I'd near everything

that the earthquake missed
G

If only it finds you
D
Dsus4
G
Bm

just left them the smoke and the ashes of the
A
Asus4
A
D

dreams that they had feared
G

California, earthquake year,
D

just don't know what you've done
Bm

We might fall off in the ocean,
A

Lord, but you'll never make us do
D
Bm

You can pardon or do the devil,
G
D

but we ain't afraid of him
G
Bm

And we'll build ourselves another town
A
D

So you can tear it down again
G
Bm

We'll build ourselves another town
G
A
D

So you can tear it down again

you

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Chords
  • Gsus2

  • G

  • Bm

    2
  • A

  • D

  • Dsus4

  • Asus4

  • E

Capo: 4

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