California Girls chords by The Beach Boys

Chords with lyrics

"California Girls"
		  (Brian Wilson / Mike Love)

Intro:

	Electric 12-string [measures 1-4]:

	[BB]
	 v  v  v  v  v
	----------------------
	-----9---7------------
	-----9---8---9-8------
	-9---9--99--9----9-11-
	----------------------
	----------------------

	Bass [enters on measure 2]:

	 v  v  v  v  v
	-----1----------------
	---------4---2-1------
	-2------2---2----2-4--
	----------------------

	Electric 12-string [measure 5]:

	[A augmentedA]
	 v  v  v  v  v
	----------------------
	-----7---5------------
	-----7---6---7-6---6--
	-7---7--77--7----7----
	----------------------
	----------------------

	Bass [measure 5]:

	 v  v  v  v  v
	----------------------
	-----4---2---0--------
	-0------0---0--4-0-4--
	----------------------

	Horns [arr. for guitar]:

	measures 1,2:	tacit
	measure 3:	BB (octaves)		x2x4xx
	measure 4:	E/B			x2210x
	measure 5:	Em/A	 		x0200x

Verse 1:

	   BB                 B9B9
	Well, East Coast girls are hip, I really ....
	     E MajorE
	And the Southern ...
	       F#F#
	They knock me out when I'm ...
	   BB                 B9B9
	The midwest farmers' ....
	     E MajorE
	And the Northern girls with ...
	        F#F#
	They keep their boyfriends ...

Chorus:

	 BB         C#m7C#m7
	I wish they all could ...
	 A augmentedA          Bm7Bm7
	I wish they all could ...
	 G+G          Am7Am7      BB
	I wish they all could ...

Verse 2:

	The West coast has the sunshine, and ...

[repeat chorus]

Organ break [arr. for guitar]

	 v  v  v  v   v  v  v  v
	-7-------7------7|-9-------9---9----
	----79--7---79---|----79--7--79-----
	-----------------|------------------
	-----------------|------------------
	-----------------|------------------
	-----------------|------------------

	bass:

	 v  v  v  v   v  v  v  v
	-----------------|----6-------------
	-----------------|--------86--42----
	-----------------|----------------4-
	-----------------|------------------


Coda [repeat to fade]:

	 BB                 C#m7C#m7
	I wish they all could ...
	                  (wish ....


-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers

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