IN CALIFORNIA This one you can actually almost replicate on guitar. When playing, keep thumbing the A to keep that open C note, and play the bottom two strings with your index and middle I can’t be bothered tabbing it, so here at the chords: A/Dmajb5: x 0 x x 9 10 A: x 0 x(6)5 5 Am x 0 x(5)5 5 A/D: x 0 x 2 3 2 Asus2b5: x 0 x 4 4 5 A/G: x 0 x 4 3 3 E/B: 0 x 9 8 7 x E/Amaj7: 0 x 6 6 5 x E/G: 0 x 2 4 3 x E/A: 0 x 7 6 5 x E/Aaug: 0 x 2 3 2 x E: 0 2 2 1 0 0 CAPO 3 A/Dmajb5, A A/Dmajb5, A A/Dmajb5 A my heart became a drunken runt Am A/D on the day i sunk in this shunt A to tap me clean Asus2b5 of all the wonder A/G and the sorrow i have seen A since i left my home A/Dmajb5, A my home on the old milk lake Am A/D where the darkness does fall so fast A it feels like some kind of mistake Asus2b5 A/G just like they told you it would A just like they told you it would E/B E/Amaj7 when i came into my land E/G E/A i did not understand E/G E/Aaug neither dry rot or the burn pile or the bark beetle or the dry well E/Am E or the black bale B but there is another E who is a little older Abm when i broke my bone, E he carried me up from the riverside B to spend my life in spitting distance E of the love that i have known Abm i must stay here E in an endless eveningtide B and if you come and see me E you'll upset the order Abm you cannot come and see me E for i set myself apart B but when you come and see me E in California Abm (F#) B you cross the border of my heart B B7 well, i have sown untidy furrows 'cross my soul E Em but i am still a coward B B7 content to see my garden grow so sweet E Em (F#) and full of someone else's flowers Abm (F#) E sometimes i can almost feel the power (F#) Abm (F#) E sometimes i am so in love with you (F#) Abm (F#) E like a little clock that trembles on the edge of the hour (F#) Abm (F#) E only ever calling out "cuck-oo, hoo-oo, hoo-oo" (F#) A/Dmajb5 when i called you A you little one Am in a bad way A/D did you love me? do you spite me? A time will tell Asus2b5 A/G if i can be well A and rise to meet you rightly E/B E/Amaj7 when moving across my land E/G E/A brandishing themselves like a burning branch E/G E/Aaug advance the tallow-colored, wall-eyed deer E/Am E quiet as gondoliers B E well, i wait all night for you in California Abm watching the fox pick off my goldfish E from their sorry, golden state B E (sus4) and i am no longer afraid of anything Abm E save the life that here awaits B i don't belong to anyone B7 E Em my heart is heavy as an oil drum B and i don't want to be alone B7 E Em my heart is yellow as an ear of corn B and i have torn my soul apart B7 E Em from pulling artlessly with fool commands Abm (F#) some nights i just never go to sleep at all E and i stand (F#) Abm (F#) E shaking in the doorway like a sentinel, all alone (F#) Abm (F#) bracing like the bow upon a ship E and fully abandoning (F#) Abm any thought of anywhere but home (F#) E my home (F#) Abm (F#) E sometimes i can almost feel the power (F#) Abm (F#) E and i do love you (F#) Abm (F#) E is it only timing that has made it such a dark hour (F#) Abm (F#) E only ever chiming out "cuck-oo, hoo-oo, hoo-oo" F# *stabs* Abm (F#) E (F#) cu-ckoo, cu-ckoo, koo, ha-a, ha-hour, ha-a, ha-a Abm (F#) E (F#) cu-ckoo, cu-ckoo, koo, ha-a, ha-hour, ha-a, ha-a Abm (F#) E (F#) cu-ckoo, cu-ckoo, koo, ha-a, ha-hour, ha-a, ha-a Abm (F#) E (F#) cu-ckoo, cu-ckoo, koo, ha-a, ha-hour, ha-a, ha-a A/Dmajb5 my heart A i wear you down Am i know A/D gotta think straight keep a clean plate A keep from wearing down Asus2b5 A/G if i lose my hay A just where am i going to lay? G A F G A for it has half who need to be hanging around G A F G A Here among the Daphne blooming out of the big ground G A F G A i'm a native too, but i'm overgrown G A F G A i am sure my roots are near here as rich as rope G F here down A in California