Key: A minor•
Verse 1
Words and Music by Margo
Verse 2
Guryan and Richard Bennett
Am
G
D
Melon- rising California sun
Am
G
D
Drifting in a day not yet begun
Am
G
Six o'clock and peaceful
Am
G
D
Floating in a Technicolor scene
Verse 3
F
Em
Something nearly peaceful in the sound
Em
ground
Bb
strange
Dm
Verse 4
F
D
You'd better get up
G
Em
And run for a doorway
Am
Verse 5
No time for thinking
Your life is at stake
Everyone's doing the
California Shake
G
F
Em
Dm
D
California Shake
Am
Verse 6
G
D
Nonbelieving, everybody waits
Am
G
D
Shifting on the continental plates
Am
G
D
Thunder far below the ocean floor
Am
G
Damned impartial sub-
Verse 7
F
Em
Wond'ring if you're going to survive
Am
F
Am
Em
God, it feels like eight point four or five
Eb
Bb
Fifteen seconds holding your breath
Eb
Dm
Living through a microscopic death
Verse 8
F
D
You'd better hold on
G
Em
E
The worst isn't over
Interlude 1
Am
Verse 9
Your life is at stake
Everyone's doing the
California Shake
F
© 1975 (renewed) DARTMOOR
MUSIC
Verse 10
Em
Dm
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsAm G D F Em...
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