Joanna Newsom – In California chords

IN CALIFORNIA

This one you can actually almost replicate on guitar. When playing, keep thumbing the A 
to keep that open C note, and play the bottom two strings with your index and middle 
I can’t be bothered tabbing it, so here at the chords:

A/Dmajb5: x 0 x x 9 10
A: x 0 x(6)5 5
Am x 0 x(5)5 5A/D: x 0 x 2 3 2
Asus2b5: x 0 x 4 4 5
A/G: x 0 x 4 3 3
E/B: 0 x 9 8 7 xE/Amaj7: 0 x 6 6 5 x
E/G: 0 x 2 4 3 x
E/A: 0 x 7 6 5 x
E/Aaug: 0 x 2 3 2 x
E: 0 2 2 1 0 0

CAPO 3

A/Dmajb5, A
A/Dmajb5, A

A/Dmajb5    Amy heart became a drunken runt
Am            A/Don the day i sunk in this shunt
Ato tap me clean
Asus2b5
of all the wonder
			A/Gand the sorrow i have seen
			 Asince i left my home
A/Dmajb5, Amy home on the old milk lake
           Am                   A/Dwhere the darkness does fall so fast
					  Ait feels like some kind of mistake
      Asus2b5                A/Gjust like they told you it would
               Ajust like they told you it would
E/B                E/Amaj7when i came into my land


      E/G      E/Ai did not understand
        E/G                             E/Aaugneither dry rot or the burn pile or the bark
beetle or the dry well
   E/Am      Eor the black bale

             Bbut there is another
                Ewho is a little older
                G#mwhen i broke my bone,
                               Ehe carried me up from the riverside
            Bto spend my life in spitting distance
        Eof the love that i have known
            G#mi must stay here
               Ein an endless eveningtide
                    Band if you come and see me
                 Eyou'll upset the order
                    G#myou cannot come and see me
                 Efor i set myself apart
                      Bbut when you come and see me
   Ein California
       G#m        (F#)     Byou cross the border of my heart

                     B             B7well, i have sown untidy furrows 'cross my soul
          E             Embut i am still a coward
                  B              B7content to see my garden grow so sweet

     E             Em   (F#)and full of someone else's flowers
                G#m                 (F#)  Esometimes i can almost feel the power
(F#)           G#m               (F#)   Esometimes i am so in love with you
(F#)           G#m                            (F#)   Elike a little clock that trembles on the edge of the hour
(F#)      G#m                       (F#)    Eonly ever calling out "cuck-oo, hoo-oo, hoo-oo"

(F#)   A/Dmajb5when i called you
   Ayou little one
     Amin a bad way
        A/Ddid you love me?
do you spite me?
Atime will tell
     Asus2b5 A/Gif i can be well
            Aand rise to meet you rightly

E/B                E/Amaj7when moving across my land
E/G					    E/Abrandishing themselves like a burning branch
E/G                           E/Aaugadvance the tallow-colored, wall-eyed deer
E/Am      Equiet as gondoliers

                 B                  Ewell, i wait all night for you in California
             G#mwatching the fox pick off my goldfish
                   Efrom their sorry, golden state
           B                 E  (sus4)and i am no longer afraid of anything
         G#m             Esave the life that here awaits

                  Bi don't belong to anyone
   B7                   E         Emmy heart is heavy as an oil drum
                    Band i don't want to be alone
      B7                   E            Emmy heart is yellow as an ear of corn
                   Band i have torn my soul apart
     B7                     E            Emfrom pulling artlessly with fool commands
                   G#m				(F#)some nights i just never go to sleep at all
   Eand i stand
(F#)            G#m           (F#)            Eshaking in the doorway like a sentinel, all alone
(F#)             G#m            (F#)bracing like the bow upon a ship
       Eand fully abandoning
(F#)           G#many thought of anywhere but home
(F#) Emy home
(F#)            G#m           (F#)  Esometimes i can almost feel the power
(F#)  G#m (F#) Eand i do love you
(F#)       G#m                      (F#)       Eis it only timing that has made it such a dark hour
(F#)       G#m                  (F#)     Eonly 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/Dmajb5my heart
        Ai wear you down
Ami know
            A/Dgotta think straight
keep a clean plate
Akeep from wearing down
Asus2b5      A/Gif i lose my hay
                 Ajust where am i going to lay?

       G         A   F           G      Afor it has half who need to be hanging around
               G      A         F           G  AHere among the Daphne blooming out of the big ground
      G      A    F    G   Ai'm a native too, but i'm overgrown
     G      A          F    G                Ai am sure my roots are near here as rich as rope
    G       Fhere down
       Ain California