California Earthquake chords by The Seldom Scene

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Verse 1
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There was a
California earthquake in the
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year 83
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Shipped the living day
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lights out of the
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Owens
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County city.
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Weren't a building still upstanding
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when the dust had cleared away?
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Just a moment   in the distance,
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all the way to
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San
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Andrés
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Well,
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Sherman
Buck was driving his old
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mule into town
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When
Biggin' came, it shook so hard that
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it knocked him to the ground
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Walter opened up a hole so big,
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he just knew that his time was up
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And it swallowed up
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that poor old you
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And it just missed your love
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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, oh
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But you'll never make us your own
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You're a partner to the devil
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We ain't afraid of him
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And we'll build ourselves another town
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So you can tear it down again
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Then it came the quake of 1989,
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that leveled the mission crate
The earth was like an ocean churn
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ing the waves of 20 feet
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I  thought it sounded like
a thousand trains
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Was going underground
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I  cleaned across the
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sandwalking
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And  folks heard that mournful sound
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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,
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but you'd never make us your own
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You're a partner to the devil
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We're being afraid of him
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And we'll build ourselves another town
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So you can tear it down again
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Then it came one day, the
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Holocaust
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And it rocked the
Frisco
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Bay
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Miles of walls came tumbling down
Like on
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Jericho that day
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I'd      near everything
that the earthquake missed
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If only it finds you
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just left them     the smoke and the ashes of the
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dreams that they     had feared
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California, earthquake year,
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just don't know what you've done
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We might fall off in the ocean,
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Lord, but you'll never make us do
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You can pardon or do the devil,
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but we ain't afraid of him
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And we'll build ourselves another town
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So you can tear it down again
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We'll build ourselves another town
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So you can tear it down again
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