Rodney Crowell – Rainy Days In California (Guitar)

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As recorded by Rodney Crowell & Lukas Nelson (2025 release) [Intro] A E A E A E A E A [Verse 1]
         E          A       E  A          E                   A     E  A
Days fly by me like dragons,     oil well fires, and car tire smoke

           E                       A      E  A
Helicopter searchlights through my window

               E                     A    E  C#m
These midnight mean streets ain't no joke

                             D                E            A
Listening to the siren's wail, counting sheep to no avail
[Verse 2]
        E                A       E  A             E                    A   E  A
Traffic jam from here to nowhere,     the devil's claw marks point the way

                 E                  A          E  A
There's not much shaking out on the fault line

           E               A   E  C#m
Unless the big one comes today

                               D                    B
If I go north straight up the 1, destination Oregon

                                     E    D  C#m  E
No need to leave the porch light on, I'll be long gone
[Chorus]
A     E           A     E  A          E           A      E
Rainy days in California     come too far and few for me

A     E           A      E  C#m
Rainy days in California

                                      D
These desert towns don't feed my soul

                   E
I need to hear the thunder roll
[Interlude] A E A E A [Verse 3]
           E                A         E  A
As in some dark and tangled nightmare

              E                 A     E  A
I've lost all sense of time and place

             E                 A         E  A
I'm sure you must have seen me somewhere

       E              A     E  C#m
I'm no stranger to disgrace

                        D                        B
10 bound east past Indio, hammer down New Mexico

                             E    D   C#m  E
Airline Highway here I come, gone and then some
[Chorus]
A     E           A     E  A          E           A       E
Rainy days in California     come too far and few between

A     E           A      E  C#m
Rainy days in California

                                D
Twenty years of endless drought

                 E
Yeah, I can find my own way out
[Outro]
A  E                 A              E  A
   I'm headed off in search of rain

                 E                 A    E  A
Way back down in the land of sugar cane