Palm Desert chords by Van Dyke Parks

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Verse:
Eb MajorEb
By Palm Desert

To market to buy
Eb MajorEb       Bb7Bb7
Tenderfoot up to date
Eb MajorEb         AbAb
Palms of the real estate
Eb MajorEb
By Palm Desert
           G minorGm F7F7 Bb7Bb7 Eb MajorEb
Springs often run dry

Eb(ascending chromatically)
I came west unto
AbAb
Hollywood
   C/GC/G
Never-never land
Eb6Eb6           AbAb
Juxtaposed to B.B.D. and O
Abmaj7Abmaj7 AbAb      AbaugAbaug
Beyond San Fernando On
F minorFm C7C7 F minorFm   AbAb
Hillside manors on
  DbDb     F#F#
The banks of toxicity
Eb MajorEb  F minorFm   Eb MajorEb    F minorFm    AbAb
Those below and those above the same

Eb MajorEb (ascending chromatically)
Dreams are still born in
AbAb
Hollywood
    C/GC/G
I don't understand
Eb6Eb6             AbAb
Just suppose the youngster knows
Abmaj7Abmaj7  AbAb      AbaugAbaug
He's had a good deal of fortune
 F minorFm  C7C7    F minorFm    AbAb
And up through the babble on
 DbDb        F#F#
The fair banks complicity
Eb MajorEb    F minorFm    Eb MajorEb  F minorFm    AbAb
Buy your leave or stay beyond the game

Interlude:
C majorC    FF   C7C7 FF

Verse:
FF
Palm Desert

Not fade away
FF
Palm Desert
Bb6Bb6       C7C7
I wish I could stay
FF
Palm Desert

Sages abound
GbdimGbdim A minorAm
So head your head
    C majorC   FF
To the ground round.

(Repeat chords)

Eb(ascending chromatically)
Meanwhile in the wild west of
AbAb
Hollywood
    C/GC/G
age is losing hold
Eb6Eb6
Inasmuch as you are touched
  AbAb  Abmaj7Abmaj7
To have withstood
AbAb   AbaugAbaug
By the very old
F minorFm  C7C7   F minorFm    AbAb
Search for the truth within
DbDb       F#F#
The bounds of toxicity
Eb MajorEb   F minorFm
Left unsung
Eb MajorEb     F minorFm    AbAb
So I have strung the frame