Joseph Arthur – California (Guitar)

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[Verse]
D      G
Well I tried to hold you

Cadd9         Asus4
But you could not be held

Cadd9    Asus4   G
I had to let you go

D       G
Maybe I still don't know you

Cadd9    Asus4
But I am waitin' for you

Cadd9      Asus4     G
To make it back here on your own

[Chorus]
Em   Cadd9          D     G           D       G       Em
California's not my hoooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-oome

Em             Cadd9               D     G       D
But I'll still be here when you're goooo-ooo-ooo-oone
[Verse]
D     G
And I tried to warn you

Cadd9       Asus4
But you did not believe me

Cadd9       Asus4          G
When I said I should never drink

D          G
So when we tied one on

Cadd9     Asus4
All of my anger poured out

Cadd9      Asus4        G
Like rusty water from a tortured sink

D          G
Oh darling please forgive me

Cadd9       Asus4
Sometimes I lose my temper

Cadd9     Asus4       G
I regret everything I said

D           G
But it's so hard for me not

Cadd9     Asus4
To become aggravated

Cadd9        Asus4        G
From all the noise ya put in my head

[Chorus]
Em   Cadd9          D     G           D       G       Em
California's not my hoooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-oome

Em             Cadd9               D     G       D
But I'll still be here when you're goooo-ooo-ooo-oone
[Bridge]
Am                 Em
I hope you keep in mind

Em                     G
A soul evolves through time

G                   D
And people they can change

Am                Em
I wish we could rewind

Em                  G
When love becomes unkind

G                D
I know it's stra-ay-ange

Am              Em
Arrested for my crime

Em                  G
I'm serving up this time

G                    D
Feels like a million days

Am                 Em
I hope you keep in mind

Em                     G
A soul evolves through time

G                   D
And people they can change
[Verse]
D          G
I know you lost respect but

Cadd9        Asus4
Somehow I'll get it back

Cadd9         Asus4          G
This time I'm really gettin' clean

D         G
And now I know for sure

Cadd9          Asus4
Those things I thought before

Cadd9       Asus4         G
Were just a voice of my disease

[Chorus]
Em   Cadd9          D     G           D       G       Em
California's not my hoooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-oome

Em             Cadd9               D     G       D
But I'll still be here when you're goooo-ooo-ooo-oone

Em   Cadd9          D     G           D       G       Em
California's not my hoooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-oome

Em             Cadd9               D     G       D
But I'll still be here when you're goooo-ooo-ooo-oone