Joanna Newsom – In California (Guitar)

Capo 3
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Chords

Dmaj7b5/A: x 0 x x 9 10 A: x 0 x(6)5 5 Am x 0 x(5)5 5 D/A: x 0 x 2 3 2 B7/A: x 0 x 4 4 5 G/A: x 0 x 4 3 3 B/E: 0 x 9 8 7 x Amaj7/E: 0 x 6 6 5 x E7: 0 x 2 4 3 x A/E: 0 x 7 6 5 x A#dim/E: 0 x 2 3 2 x E: 0 2 2 1 0 0 Dmaj7b5/A A Dmaj7b5/A A
Dmaj7b5/A   A
my heart became a drunken runt

Am            D/A
on the day i sunk in this shunt

A
to tap me clean

B7/A
of all the wonder

                        G/A
and the sorrow i have seen

                         A
since i left my home

Dmaj7b5/A  A
my home on the old milk lake

           Am                   D/A
where the darkness does fall so fast

                                          A
it feels like some kind of mistake

      B7/A                   G/A
just like they told you it would

               A
just like they told you it would

B/E                Amaj7/E
when i came into my land

      E7       A/E
i did not understand

        E7                              A#dim/E
neither dry rot or the burn pile or the bark
beetle or the dry well
   Am/E      E
or the black bale

             B
but there is another

                E
who is a little older

                G#m
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

            G#m
i must stay here

               E
in an endless eveningtide

                    B
and if you come and see me

                 E
you'll upset the order

                    G#m
you cannot come and see me

                 E
for i set myself apart

                      B
but when you come and see me

   E
in California

       G#m        (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

                G#m                 (F#)  E
sometimes i can almost feel the power

(F#)           G#m               (F#)   E
sometimes i am so in love with you

(F#)           G#m                            (F#)   E
like a little clock that trembles on the edge of the hour

(F#)      G#m                       (F#)    E
only ever calling out "cuck-oo, hoo-oo, hoo-oo"

(F#)   Dmaj7b5/A
when i called you

   A
you little one

     Am
in a bad way

        D/A
did you love me?
do you spite me?
A
time will tell

     B7/A    G/A
if i can be well

            A
and rise to meet you rightly

B/E                Amaj7/E
when moving across my land

E7                                          A/E
brandishing themselves like a burning branch

E7                           A#dim/E
advance the tallow-colored, wall-eyed deer

Am/E      E
quiet as gondoliers

                 B                  E
well, i wait all night for you in California

             G#m
watching the fox pick off my goldfish

                   E
from their sorry, golden state

           B                 E  (sus4)
and i am no longer afraid of anything

         G#m             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

                   G#m                          (F#)
some nights i just never go to sleep at all

   E
and i stand

(F#)            G#m           (F#)            E
shaking in the doorway like a sentinel, all alone

(F#)             G#m            (F#)
bracing like the bow upon a ship

       E
and fully abandoning

(F#)           G#m
any thought of anywhere but home

(F#) E
my home

(F#)            G#m           (F#)  E
sometimes i can almost feel the power

(F#)  G#m (F#) E
and i do love you

(F#)       G#m                      (F#)       E
is it only timing that has made it such a dark hour

(F#)       G#m                  (F#)     E
only ever chiming out "cuck-oo, hoo-oo, hoo-oo"
F# *stabs*
G#m           (F#)           E              (F#)
cu-ckoo, cu-ckoo, koo, ha-a, ha-hour, ha-a, ha-a

G#m           (F#)           E              (F#)
cu-ckoo, cu-ckoo, koo, ha-a, ha-hour, ha-a, ha-a

G#m           (F#)           E              (F#)
cu-ckoo, cu-ckoo, koo, ha-a, ha-hour, ha-a, ha-a

G#m           (F#)           E              (F#)
cu-ckoo, cu-ckoo, koo, ha-a, ha-hour, ha-a, ha-a

Dmaj7b5/A
my heart

        A
i wear you down

Am
i know

            D/A
gotta think straight
keep a clean plate
A
keep from wearing down

B7/A         G/A
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