Chords with lyrics
Key: A augmentedA
🎸 Intro:
| C majorC | E MajorE | A minorAm | A minorAm |
| G+G | FF | C majorC | C majorC G+G |
🎸 Verse 1:
C majorC E MajorE
Let it be printed, let it be known
A minorAm A minorAm
I'm leaving you
I'm going home
G+G FF C majorC C majorC
And all you can do is just watch me go
🎸 Verse 2:
G+G C majorC E MajorE
I've put you down, talked you up
A minorAm A minorAm
Defended your honor and then packed it in and picked it up
G+G FF C majorC C majorC
And all you can do is watch me go
🎸 Verse 3:
G+G C majorC E MajorE
From the Eastern seaboard, the landlocked Midwest
A minorAm A minorAm
The Keys, the Alps, the Black Hills and Budapest
G+G FF
With my heart in a sling, tail between my legs a-swinging
C majorC
I'm sorry for leaving
🎸 Chorus:
G+G FF G+G
But when the palm trees bow their heads
A minorAm FF
No matter how wrong I've been
DmDm G+G C majorC
L.A., you always let me back in
🎸 Verse 4:
G+G C majorC E MajorE
And you can bury me when my body breaks
A minorAm A minorAm
In the earth that created me, in the Golden State
G+G FF C majorC C majorC
By my mama and her brother and their mama too
🎸 Verse 5:
G+G C majorC
'Cause I had a dream I was carried on backs
E MajorE
Of a thousand green birds
A minorAm A minorAm
And they carried me to a place without words
G+G FF C majorC
And there was nothing, but there was everything
G+G
And it sounded like this
🎸 Instrumental:
| C majorC | E MajorE | A minorAm | A minorAm |
| G+G | FF | C majorC | C majorC |
🎸 Chorus:
G+G FF G+G
But when the palm trees bow their heads
A minorAm FF
No matter how wrong I've been
DmDm G+G C majorC E MajorE
L.A., you always let me back in
FF G+G
And when the palm trees bow their heads
A minorAm FF
No matter how cruel I've been
DmDm G+G FF G+G
L.A., you always let me back in, in
🎸 Outro:
FF G+G
Oh back in, in
FF G+G C majorC
Oh back in, in