Tom T. Hall – I Couldnt Live In Southern California (Guitar)

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Track 2 of 10 on the album "Places I've Done Time" (1978) [Intro] D G D A7 D [Chorus]
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I couldn't live in southern California

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I don't know nothing I could do

  G                A7            D       Bm
I couldn't live in southern California, babe

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   Not unless I lived there with you
[Verse 1]
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We went down to Laguna in the wintertime

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The shops were warm, the brandy tasted good

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You know, you said you never could stand tourists

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And you wouldn't be a tourist if you could

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Do you remember that we saw a rainbow

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Breaking over the mountains in the way?

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And even though they said it would be raining

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We found ourselves a chilly, sunny day

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The mountains are so high, I feel that I could fly

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Looking down into the valley below

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The clear Kentucky streams, they are always in my dreams

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I think that is something you should know
[Interlude] G D A7 D [Verse 2]
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I don't think that I could drive the freeways

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I get lost and you know how that feels

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Someday, I think I'd like to paint a seascape

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If they ever get the ocean to stand still

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The old men with the beer talked to the seagulls

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The young men in their prime were playing ball

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Some coyotes on the prairie chased the rabbits

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And we promised that we'd come back in the fall
[Chorus]
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But I couldn't live in southern California

G            A7               D
I don't know nothing I could do

  G                A7            D       Bm
I couldn't live in southern California, babe

G              A7           D        G
   Not unless I lived there with you
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