California Dreamer chords by Wolf Parade

Chords with lyrics

This is how I play the song. Suggestions and corrections welcome!


E minorEm

D MajorD  C majorC    E minorEm
California dreamer
D MajorD    C majorC     E minorEm
Tell me why did you go?
D MajorD       C majorC   BB   E minorEm
I carved your ever fading figure
D MajorD     C majorC   BB  E minorEm
Into the ever dying snow

A minorAm    G#augG#aug              E minorEm
I'll be around, I'll be around, I'll be around
A minorAm    G#augG#aug   E minorEm
Like a teenager in town
A minorAm       G#augG#aug          E minorEm
Where all the other young lovers are found

    E minorEm       D MajorD       C majorC G+G
And I think I mighta heard you on the radio
     A minorAm  BB        E minorEm
But the radio waves were like snow

E minorEm

D MajorD        C majorC       E minorEm
And you were dreaming of Los Angeles
D MajorD       C majorC        E minorEm
While I was singing songs you wrote
D MajorD      C majorC  BB     E minorEm
You quietly gave away the winter clothes I made for you
   D MajorD    C majorC  BB    E minorEm
While I made angels in the snow

A minorAm      G#augG#aug      E minorEm
I would have left if you just asked me to
A minorAm     G#augG#aug      E minorEm
Or come to me before the preacher
A minorAm       AbAb
Now you're a survivor

       E minorEm        D MajorD       C majorC G+G
And I just thought I mighta heard you on the radio
     A minorAm  BB        E minorEm
But the radio waves were like snow
  E minorEm        D MajorD       C majorC G+G
I thought I mighta heard you on the radio
     A minorAm  BB        E minorEm
But the radio waves were like snow

    A minorAm     E minorEm
Do the young stay pretty?
    BB      C majorC
Do the pretty stay quick?
   G+G       A minorAm   C majorC
You know, but you never surrender
         E minorEm D MajorD   C majorC   G+G
The city doesn't belong to you anymore
A minorAm  BB    E minorEm
California dreamer

E minorEm

E minorEm
You dream of seasons that never die

You go to oceans that never touch the ice

You dream of seasons that never die

You go to oceans that never touch the ice

You dream of seasons that never die

You go to oceans that never touch the

I surrender, the city to slender

Creatures getting younger and younger

    E minorEm       D MajorD       C majorC G+G
And I think I mighta heard you on the radio
     A minorAm  BB        E minorEm
But the radio waves were like snow
   E minorEm       D MajorD       C majorC G+G
Oh I think I mighta heard you on the radio
     A minorAm  BB        E minorEm
But the radio waves were like snow

    A minorAm     E minorEm
Do the young stay pretty?
    BB      C majorC
Do the pretty stay quick?
   G+G       A minorAm   C majorC
You know, but you never surrender
         E minorEm D MajorD   C majorC   G+G
The city doesn't belong to you anymore
A minorAm  BB    E minorEm
California dreamer

A minorAm    G#augG#aug              E minorEm
I'll be around, I'll be around, I'll be around
A minorAm    G#augG#aug   E minorEm
Like a teenager in town
A minorAm      G#augG#aug           G+G        C majorC
With all the other young lovers their mothers may have found
A minorAm  G#augG#aug  E minorEm
California dreamer

E minorEm