Chords for RACHEL & SAN BERNARDINO WALTZ - Rick Shea

[E] _ When I was growing up in San Bernardino and time when I was growing up there trying to figure out how to do this
There's a little place called the penny University [B] there, and I used to play the [E] open mic night [G] there
And it was a couple there was Jim [E] ringer and Mary _ [F#m] McCavelin
[E] They of course played the weekend [G] shows there at the penny University
I [N] have albums and they toured and they were on the both music radio show there at
_ KVCR the other college stations, and they were heroes to a [C#] lot of us [E] of course
I'm very [N] proud to be
Doing the show and I got to know Mary a few years
_ A few years ago
We've come to be pretty good friends and done a few shows together and when we decided to do this I [E] considered it a great
Great honor.
I'm really [G#m] proud to be a part of this
_ [E] _ But [D#] I recorded a couple of songs one [E] of Jim's and one of Mary's a few years ago.
I'll do those right now _
_ First is [G#m] my name is [A] called Rachel
[E] The [G#m] second is my area is [N] called the San Bernardino waltz, and it's just a beautiful song
It's heartbreaking to me San Bernardino since the [B] time that I've [G#m] lived there of course.
I have [C#m] fond [E] memories
Being young there, but it's just taken one hit after another
_ Economically fires disasters, [B] it's [E] just really been a real hard luck [N] and heartbreaking thing for me to look at the old
I [E] _ still have family there my wife's family is still [F#] out there
_ [E] _ _ _ I do get out there fairly often and _ _ anyhow this is Rachel in the San Bernardino
Rachel _ [F#] _
[E] _ [F#m] _ _ [A] _ _ [C#] _ [E] _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ [B] _ _ [E] _ was a girl
[A] _ [E] _
[A] You _ _ [B] should have heard [A] love songs [B] I saw _ [E] you should have heard [A] the way we [E] talk walking [A] by the
_ bare [E]
foot through the [G#m] _ [B] ladies [E] and _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ [E] Walking Rachel was a [A] melody that [E] I first [A] learned the same
_ _ [B]
Sorceress [A] just there [B] in her team
_ _ [E]
Skinny dead men [A] side to [E] see what freckles [A] everywhere _
[E] Blame and fade and down [B] wild flowers
_ _ [C#m] She had a way of saying [A] this was never [B] gonna happen
[B] And good [E] night like a love [C#] good morning [B] like a friend
_ [E]
Rachel was a [A] [E] watermelon right [F#m] [A] freshly stole
_ [E] first girl ever [B] loved first lie that I
[G#m] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ [C#] _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ [E] Rachel [A] and Rachel [E] sang Rachel [A] held my
_ _ [B] Rachel watched [A] me grow [B] into a bag
_ [E] Rachel said [A] listen to [E] me when I [A] told the lie
_ _ [E]
Rachel waiting outside [B] when I said goodbye
The [C#m] same walking still rolls along with me and Rachel [B]
stroll
_ [G#] [A] But the [B] meadows turn [E] foggy
Me [C#m]
and [B] Rachel's oh
_ _ [E] Rachel's just [A] a memory that [E] I still [A] like to hold
[E] first girl that I ever loved [B] the first slide [E] that I
_ [B]
first [E] girl that [G#m] I ever loved the first slide [C#m] that I
_ _ _ [A] _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ [G#m] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ [B] _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ [D#] _
[E] _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ [G#m] _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Came to this [C#m] hot [E] dusty town _ _ [A] to be with the lover
[E] _ The _ _
[A] people were [C#m] all [E] standing now all [C#m] the same
[A] _ _ [E] _ She _ didn't like the love that I made
She had some [A] ideas for [E] my hey
_ [F#m] change partners for the [E] big promenade
_ [C#m] and the same
_ _ [E]
I _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ [B] _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ [B] _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
tried doing the [C#m] best I [E] can
To [A] be seen as the most [E] one man
I'm not ready to [C#m] change partners [E] again
_ [C#m] for the same _ _ [E] Wall
_ _ Feel like an [C#m] apple bomb
[E] _
The _ [A] way my [E] name [C#m] keeps [E] going around
_ _ My ears and grow tired _ _ _ [C#m] of the same _ _
[E] _ _ So _ [C#m] _ _ [B] _
_ [C#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G#m] _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ they'll help you the great disguise
_ _ _ [A] All the [E] mountains so I
_ _ Farewell to them [C#m] all
[E]
In _ [C#m] the sand
_ [E] _ [C#m] The _ [B] _ _ [C#m] sand _ _
[E] _ Oh
_ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ [G#m] _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [C#] _ _ [N] _ _ _