California Earthquake chords by Rodney Crowell

California Earthquake

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There was a California earthquake in the year of '83
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It shook the living daylights out of the Owens County Seat
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There weren't a building still left standing when the dust had cleared away
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Just a rumble in the distance all the way to San Andrea

Sherman Buck was driving his old mule into town
When a big one came and shook so hard that it knocked him to the ground
Lord there opened up a hole so big he thought his time was up
Lord it swallowed up that poor old mule and it just missed Sherman Buck

Chorus:
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California earthquake you just don't know what you've done
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We may fall off in the ocean, Lord you'll never make us run
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You're a partner of the devil, Lord we ain't afraid of him
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We'll build ourselves another town so you can tear it down again

Then came the quake of '99 that levelled Mission Creek
The earth was like an ocean churning with waves of twenty feet
Lord it sounded like a thousand trains were screaming underground
Clean across to San Joachim they heard that mournful sound

Chorus

Then came one day the holocaust Lord on rocks of Franciso Bay
Miles of walls came down like old Jericho that day
Might near everything the earthquake missed a holy fire consumed
Just left 'em smoke and the ashes of the dreams that can't be ruined

Chorus




by: José Duarte
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