• Song:

    California girls

  • Artist:

    Beach Boys

  • Album:

    Summer Days (And Summer...

California Girls
The Beach Boys
Written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love; released as a single with "Let Him 
Run Wild" as the B-side, and on the album "Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)"

Intro:
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                                                 (slow down)
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(slightly faster than in the beginning)
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                                                       Well,

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  East   Coast  girls  are hip,   I      real - ly     dig


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         those  styles they wear,               And    the


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  Sou  - thern      with  the way they   talk, they knock
             girls                                     me

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  out    when   I'm down   there.                      The

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  Mid    West   far -  mers' daughters   real - ly


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  make   you    feel all   right,               And    the


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  Nor -  thern      with  the way they   kiss,  they keep
             girls                                     their

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  boy -  friends warm at   night.                      I

Refrain:
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  wish   they   all    could be   Ca  -  lifornia,     I
                                                       girls

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  wish   they   all    could be   Ca  -  lifornia,     I


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  wish   they   all    could be   Ca  -  lifornia      girls.


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                                                       The

Verse:
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  West   Coast  has    the sun -  shine, and       the
  ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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  girls  all    get so     tan,                 I  dig a
  oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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  French bi- ki  -  ni on  Hawaiian  island dolls  by  a
  oooooooaaaaaaaoooooooaaaaaaaoooooooaaaaaaaoooooooaaaaaa

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  palm   tree   in  the    sand.                       I've
  aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa         ooooooooooooo
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  been   all a  round  this big,  big    world, and I've
  ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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  seen   all    kind   of  girls,               Yeah,  but
  oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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  I    couldn't wait to get  back in the States, back to the
  oooooooaaaaaaaoooooooaaaaaaaoooooooaaaaaaaoooooooaaaaaa

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  cutest girls  in  the    world.                      I
  aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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  wish   they   all    could be   Ca  -  lifornia,     I
                                                       girls

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  wish   they   all    could be   Ca  -  lifornia,     I


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  wish   they   all    could be   Ca  -  lifornia      girls.


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Outro:
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                                                       I
                                        (dum  - de-do- de)

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  wish   they   all    could be   Ca  -  lifornia      girls,
                                                       I
 (girls,        girls,        girls,     yeah,  I  dig the
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                                                       I
  wish   they   all    could be   Ca  -  lifornia      girls,
  girls,        girls,        girls,     yeah,  I  dig the
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  wish   they   all    could be   Ca  -  lifornia      girls,
                                                       I
  girls,        girls,        girls,     yeah,  I  dig the
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                                                       I
  wish   they   all    could be   Ca  -  lifornia      girls,
  girls,        girls,        girls,     yeah,  I  dig the
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