in california chords by
Joanna Newsom

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Key: C major

Intro 1

Verse 1
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My heart became a drunken runt
Cm Cm 3
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On the day I sunk in this shunt
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To tap me clean
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Of all the wonder
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And the sorrow I  have     seen
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Since I left my home

Verse 2
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My home, on the old milk lake
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Where the darkness does fall so fast
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Csus4 Csus4 
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C C 
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It feels    like some kind of mistake
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C C 
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Csus4 Csus4 
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Just like they told you it would
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D D 
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Just like the tulgeywood

Verse 3
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D D 
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When I came in to my land
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I did not understand
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Neither dry rot, nor the burn pile
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Nor the bark- beetle, nor the dry well
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Cm Cm 3
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G G 
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Or the black bear

Verse 4
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But there is another
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Who is a little older
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When I broke my bone
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He carried me up from the riverside
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To spend my life in spitting- distance
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Of the love that I have known
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I must stay here, in an
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G G 
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endless eventide

Verse 5
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And if you come and see me
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You will upset the order
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You cannot come and see me
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For I set myself apart
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But when you come an d see me
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In California
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You cross the border of my heart
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Well, I have sown

Verse 6
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un tidy
furrows across my soul
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But I am still a coward
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Content to see my garden grow
So sweet and full of someone
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else's flowers
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Sometimes I can

Verse 7
Bm Bm 2
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almost
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feel the power
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D D 
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Sometimes I am so  in love with you
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Bm Bm 2
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Like a little clock that trembles
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G G 
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on the edge of the hour
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Bm Bm 2
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A A 
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G G 
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Only ever calling out "cuckoo"
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When I called

Verse 8
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you, you, little one
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In a bad way
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Did you love me?
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F F 
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Do you spite me?
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Time will tell
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If I can be well
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C C 
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And rise     to meet you rightly
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D D 
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While, moving across
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G G 
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my land
Brandishing themselves
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G G 
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Like a burning branch
Gm Gm 3
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Advance the tallow- colored,
walleyed deer
Gdim Gdim 5
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A A 
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G G 
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G G 
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Eb Eb 6
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Quiet
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F F 
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Eb Eb 6
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G G 
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as gondoliers
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While I wait all night, for you
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In California
Bm Bm 2
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Watching the fox pick off my goldfish
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From their sorry, golden state
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G G 
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And I am no longer afraid of anything
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G G 
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D D 
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Save the life that, here, awaits
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I don't belong to

Verse 9
D D 
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anyone
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My heart is heavy as an oil drum
Gm Gm 3
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D D 
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And I don't want to be alone
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My heart is yellow as an ear of corn
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D D 
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And I have torn my soul apart
From pulling artlessly with
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fool commands
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A A 
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Some nights I just

Verse 10
Bm Bm 2
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never
go to sleep at all
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And I stand
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Bm Bm 2
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Shaking in my doorway like a sentinel
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G G 
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All alone
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Bm Bm 2
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Bracing like the bow upon a ship
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G G 
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A A 
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And fully abandoning
Bm Bm 2
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Any thought of anywhere but home
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G G 
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My home
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Bm Bm 2
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Sometimes I can almost
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G G 
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feel the power
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Bm Bm 2
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And I do love you
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Bm Bm 2
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Is it only timing
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That has made it such a dark hour
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Bm Bm 2
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Only ever chiming
out "cuckoo"?
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Verse 11

Cuckoo, cuckoo, koo

Verse 12

Cuckoo, cuckoo, koo

My cuckoo,

Verse 13

cuckoo, koo

Verse 14

My cuckoo, cuckoo,

koo

Verse 15
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My heart, I wear you down
Cm Cm 3
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I know
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Gotta think straight
Keep a clean plate;
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Keep from wearing down
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C C 
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If I  lose my head
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Just where am I going to lay it?

Verse 16
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For it has half- ruined me
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to be hanging around
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Here, among the daphne,
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Ab Ab 4
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C C 
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blooming out of  the big brown
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I am native to it
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But I'm overgrown
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I have choked my roots  on the earth,
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C C 
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as  rich as roe
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Here, down in California

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