CAPO 3
A/Dmajb5, A
A/Dmajb5, A
A/Dmajb5 A
my heart became a drunken runt
Am A/D
on the day i sunk in this shunt
A
to tap me clean
Asus2b5
of all the wonder
A/G
and the sorrow i have seen
A
since i left my home
A/Dmajb5, A
my home on the old milk lake
Am A/D
where the darkness does fall so fast
A
it feels like some kind of mistake
A9b5 A/G
just like they told you it would
A
just like they told you it would
E/B E/A7M
when i came into my land
E/G E/A
i did not understand
E/G E/Aaug
neither dry rot or the burn pile or the bark
beetle or the dry well
E/Am E
or the black bale
B
but there is another
E
who is a little older
G#m
when i broke my bone,
E
he carried me up from the riverside
B
to spend my life in spitting distance
E
of the love that i have known
G#m
i must stay here
E
in an endless eveningtide
B
and if you come and see me
E
you'll upset the order
G#m
you cannot come and see me
E
for i set myself apart
B
but when you come and see me
E
in California
G#m ( F# ) B
you cross the border of my heart
B B7
well, i have sown untidy furrows 'cross my soul
E Em
but i am still a coward
B B7
content to see my garden grow so sweet
E Em ( F# )
and full of someone else's flowers
G#m ( F# ) E
sometimes i can almost feel the power
( F# ) G#m ( F# ) E
sometimes i am so in love with you
( F# ) G#m ( F# ) E
like a little clock that trembles on the edge of the hour
( F# ) G#m ( F# ) E
only ever calling out "cuck-oo, hoo-oo, hoo-oo"
( F# ) A/Dmajb5
when i called you
A
you little one
Am
in a bad way
A/D
did you love me?
do you spite me?
A
time will tell
A9b5 A/G
if i can be well
A
and rise to meet you rightly
E/B E/A7M
when moving across my land
E/G E/A
brandishing themselves like a burning branch
E/G E/Aaug
advance the tallow-colored, wall-eyed deer
E/Am E
quiet as gondoliers
B E
well, i wait all night for you in California
G#m
watching the fox pick off my goldfish
E
from their sorry, golden state
B E (4)
and i am no longer afraid of anything
G#m E
save the life that here awaits
B
i don't belong to anyone
B7 E Em
my heart is heavy as an oil drum
B
and i don't want to be alone
B7 E Em
my heart is yellow as an ear of corn
B
and i have torn my soul apart
B7 E Em
from pulling artlessly with fool commands
G#m ( F# )
some nights i just never go to sleep at all
E
and i stand
( F# ) G#m ( F# ) E
shaking in the doorway like a sentinel, all alone
( F# ) G#m ( F# )
bracing like the bow upon a ship
E
and fully abandoning
( F# ) G#m
any thought of anywhere but home
( F# ) E
my home
( F# ) G#m ( F# ) E
sometimes i can almost feel the power
( F# ) G#m ( F# ) E
and i do love you
( F# ) G#m ( F# ) E
is it only timing that has made it such a dark hour
( F# ) G#m ( F# ) E
only ever chiming out "cuck-oo, hoo-oo, hoo-oo"
F#
*stabs*
G#m ( F# ) E ( F# )
cu-ckoo, cu-ckoo, koo, ha-a, ha-hour, ha-a, ha-a
G#m ( F# ) E ( F# )
cu-ckoo, cu-ckoo, koo, ha-a, ha-hour, ha-a, ha-a
G#m ( F# ) E ( F# )
cu-ckoo, cu-ckoo, koo, ha-a, ha-hour, ha-a, ha-a
G#m ( F# ) E ( F# )
cu-ckoo, cu-ckoo, koo, ha-a, ha-hour, ha-a, ha-a
A/Dmajb5
my heart
A
i wear you down
Am
i know
A/D
gotta think straight
keep a clean plate
A
keep from wearing down
A9b5 A/G
if i lose my hay
A
just where am i going to lay?
G A F G A
for it has half who need to be hanging around
G A F G A
Here among the Daphne blooming out of the big ground
G A F G A
i'm a native too, but i'm overgrown
G A F G A
i am sure my roots are near here as rich as rope
G F
here down
A
in California
