Chords for Radney Foster Performs "California" on The Texas Music Scene

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_ _ _ _ _ You know, Rodney Foster has been a part of our show from the [C] very first session of Musicians We Feature.
[A] We're big [G] fans and you should be one too.
His 2014 album called Everything I Should Have Said is [C] highlighted by the semi-biographical song California.
Here's his story behind that tune.
_ _ [D] I had never written a song about California.
It's [G] odd that here I am on a Texas music thing [D] doing a song about California.
It's about two sort of broken people who are looking to [Em] start over and [E] they meet by happenstance.
[D] My wife is from the [A] Bay Area in California and we were [E] out there visiting [F#m] family and
friends with our kids _ [G] and it was sunset [G] and you could see the lights of San [A] Francisco coming on.
We [D] got to talking about her folks and how her dad had [Em] come home from World War II in
the Pacific and [A] said, I ain't going back to the [E] farm in Pennsylvania.
I'm staying right [Em] here.
And _ her [A] mom had come out on a train in the [F#m] 50s to [Em] just start a new [D] life.
They met on [A] the beach in Alameda.
So [F#m] she just said, yeah, it goes back even to the Dust Bowl days, you know, [G] or the gold rush.
She [A] said, everybody came to California to kind of start over.
It's the sort of nature of the whole [D] place.
And I was like, hey baby, can you hang on a [Bm] minute because I [B] got to go get a piece of
paper and [G] write that down.
_ _ [A] So now that's my third state.
I [D] have Texas in 1880, Louisiana blue, and now a song called [D#] California.
Who knows, maybe I'll get to the other 47 before it's over with.
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Yes, _ [E] _ morning came [D] too soon _ _ _ on [Bm] the way to _ _ [A] _
California.
_ _ _ _ Can't [D] you hear _ _ _ _ _ [Bm]
California _ _ _ calling [A] your name?
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siren's song _ _ _ [Bm] once you hear it.
_ Nothing is [A] the same.
_ [E] Made ancient _ [F#m] Spaniards sail.
[E] Made Guthrie ride [D] the _ rail. _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ Oh, _ _ _ _
[A] _ California, _ _ _ _ _
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[A] that highway to freedom. _
[E] Came a sweet lost _ weekend for [F#m] me and you. _ _ _ _ _
[A] A detour through the mountains [E] up to Santa Fe with nothing much to [F#m] do. _ _ _ _ _
[D] You said you're starting over [Bm] in LA.
_ _ Now that he's cut [A] you loose, _ I'm headed north [F#m] of there.
I don't [E] know why she left [D] that away.
I might land in [Bm] Santa Cruz, _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
California.
_ _ _ _ [D] Can't you _ _ hear _ _ _ [Bm]
California _ _ _ calling [A] your name?
_ _ _ A [D] siren's _ song _ once you [Bm]
hear it.
_ Nothing is [A] the same.
_ [E] Called Marilyn _ [F#m] Monroe.
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gold.
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_ _ _ _ _ [A] Oh, California, _ _ _ _ [Bm] I know the year is come and gone.
[C#m] And that [A] you've probably moved on.
[Bm] But girl, your memory won't go [E] away.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] You know that this sounds crazy wrong.
[A] But if you hear this song, _ [Bm] October 1st,
Meet me in [E] Morro _ Bay. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Bm] California _ _ _ calling [A]
your name?
_ _ _ A [D] siren's _ song _ _ [Bm] once you hear it.
_ Nothing is [A] the same.
_ [E] She's whispering [F#m] soft and low.
_ [E] Come and [D] hold me _ _ _ close.
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California, _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
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