-------------------Author's Note------------------
Standard Tuning
Capo 3rd Fret

Intro:
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
         
On the second 

        
G, he plays G 

Em G as eighth

 notes.

Chorus "-stop-" goes 2 quarter notes and then two quick staccato eighth notes.
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[Intro]
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[Verse]
             
A long Decembe

             
r and there's 

             
reason to beli

   
eve
             
Maybe this yea

             
r will be bett

           
er than the la

st
            
   I can't rem

            
ember the last

              
 thing that yo

       
u said
            
as you were le

avin'
             
Now the days g

        
o by so fast

[Chorus]
             
And it's one m

             
ore day up in 

           
the canyons
             
And it's one m

             
ore night in H

       
ollywood
             
If you think t

             
hat I could be

        -
 forgiven...I 

           
wish you would
         
nanananananana

         
nana.. yeah

[Verse]
             
The smell of h

             
ospitals in wi

   
nter
            
And the feelin

             
g that it's al

             
l a lot of oys

             
ters, but no p

earls
           
   All at once

             
 you look acro

             
ss a crowded r

oom
            
To see the way

             
 that light at

            
taches to a gi

rl

[Chorus]
             
And it's one m

             
ore day up in 

           
the canyons
             
And it's one m

             
ore night in H

       
ollywood
             
If you think y

              
ou might come 

          -
to California.

         
..I think you 


should
          
nanananananana

      
nana.. yeah

[Break]
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[Verse]
             
Drove up to th

             
e Hillside Man

             
or sometime af

    
ter two a.m.
             
And talked a l

             
ittle while ab

        
out the year
           
I guess the wi

              
nter makes you

             
 laugh a littl

  
e slower
            
Makes you talk

          
 a little lowe

r about
    
the things you

 could not sho

w her

[Chorus]
              
And it's been 

            
a long Decembe

              
r and there's 

            
reason to beli


eve
             
Maybe this yea

             
r will be bett

            
er than the la

st
           
  I can't reme

             
mber all the t

              
imes I tried t

  
o tell myself
            
To hold on to 

             
these moments 

        
as they pass

[Outro]
             
And it's one m

             
ore day up in 

           
the canyon
             
And it's one m

             
ore night in H

       
ollywood
             
It's been so l

              
ong since I've

         -
 seen the ocea

          
n...I guess I 

 
should
          
nanananananana

           
nana.... yeah
          
nanananananana

         
nana.... yeah