California chords by Robert Ellis

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
|G#m |  |EM7 |  |
|G#m |  |EM7 |  |G#m |

Verse 1:
G#m         E
It was a long way to go
            G#m
From Louisiana to Laredo
              E
With everything that they owned
               G#m
Boxed up in the back of a van
              E
She would have gone to the moon
                 G#m
If that's what it took to follow him
                E
It's funny what love makes you do

Verse 2:
G#m
Standing alone
                E
There in the kitchen she's packing up plates again
 G#m
Standing alone
          E
She is remembering every fight with him
 G#m
Thinking alone
             E
What am I doing here in this ghost town?
G#m
Now that he's gone
             E
There isn't a reason for me to stick around


Chorus:
                    F#
And she says maybe I'll move to California
       G#m     F#     E
With the unbroken part of my heart I still have left
             F#
Maybe I'll fall in love again someday
     G#m    F#  E
I'm not gonna hold my breath
     G#m    F#  E
I'm not gonna hold my breath

Instrumental:
|G#m |  |EM7 |  |

Verse 3:
 G#m
Which way to go
            E
When every road leads away from the things you wanted
 G#m
Which way to go
             E
When every memory is built like a home that's haunted
 G#m
Closing your eyes
                E
Dream of a place where things turn out the way you plan
 G#m
Everything dies
               E
Dream of a place where the living resides again


Chorus:
                    F#
And she says maybe I'll move to California
       G#m     F#     E
With the unbroken part of my heart I still have left
             F#
Maybe I'll fall in love again someday
     G#m    F#  E
I'm not gonna hold my breath
     G#m    F#  E
I'm not gonna hold my breath

Instrumental:
|G#m |  |E  |  |
|G#m |A  |E  |  |

Bridge:
              F#
Maybe I'll move to California
       G#m     F#     E
With the unbroken part of my heart I still have left
             F#      G#m F#
Maybe I'll fall in love again someday


Chorus:
E             F#
Maybe I'll move to California
       G#m     F#     E
With the unbroken part of my heart I still have left
             F#
Maybe I'll fall in love again someday
     G#m    F#  E
I'm not gonna hold my breath
     G#m    F#  E
I'm not gonna hold my breath
     G#m    F#  E
I'm not gonna hold my breath