Jmitchell - California guitar tab
CALIFORNIA- Joni Mitchell
INTRO:
E -----------------------------------2------0-
B ---4h5p4-0-0---0--2--2-2--2-2----4---4----0-
G -------------1----2--2-2--2-2--4-------4--1- E Esus E Esus
D ------------------2--2-2--2-2-------------2-
E A F#
Sitting in a park in Paris France reading the news and it sure looks bad
B
They won't give peace a chance, that was just a dream some of us had
E A F#
Stole a lot of lines to sing but I wouldn't want to stay here
B A
It's too old and cold and settled in its ways here
Asus4 A E C#
Ah but California, California I'm coming home
A E B Bsus2
I'm gonna see the folks I dig I'll even kiss a sunset pig
A E
California I'm coming home
E -2h4p2p0--------4-4-2--0
B ---------0---0--2-2-2--0 Esus E Esus E
G -----------1----2-2-2--1
D ----------------2-2-2--2
E
I met a redneck on a Grecian isle, we did the goat dance very well
He gave me back my smile but he kept my camera to sell
Oh the rogue, the red red rogue, he cooked good omelettes and stews
And I might have stayed on with him there, but my heart cried out for you
California, Oh California I'm coming home
Oh make me feel good rock and roll band, I'm your biggest fan
California I'm coming home
BRIDGE:
E F# A E
Oh it gets so lonely When you're walking
B
And the streets are full of strangers
F# A D
All the news of home you read just give you the blues
B B7 Asus4 A Asus2 A
Just give you the blues
So I bought me a ticket I caught a plane to Spain
Went to a party down a red dirt road
There were lots of pretty people there, reading Rolling Stone reading Vogue
They said how long can you hang around, I said a week maybe two
Just until my skin turns brown and then I'm going home
To California, California, I'm coming home
Oh, will you take me as I am, strung out on another man
California I'm coming home
BRIDGE #2:
E F# A E
Oh it gets so lonely when you're walking
B
And the streets are full of strangers
F# A E B
All the news of home you read, more about the war and the bloody changes
F# A E
Oh will you take me as I am, will you take me as I am
B F# A
Will you, will you take me as I am
E B F# A E B
Mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm, take me as I am ......
NOTE: Perhaps this song really goes like the F tuning in an earlier
posting, but I tend to break strings trying to get there. I prefer
this version most of the time. The riffs are just rough approximations
seeing how they are actually played in another tuning anyways.
(from blue, 1971)
(sent by Harlan at harlant@hawaii.edu)
