California Dreamin - The Mamas & The Papas

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Song: California Dreamin'
Artist: The Mamas and The Papas
Composers: John & Michelle Phillips
Album: If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears

Tabbed by: DJ   15th Mar 2015

TV performance at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-aK6JnyFmk

I've arranged the intro tablature for one guitar. You might find it easier 
by holding down an Asus2 shape (x02200) with the middle and ring fingers,
and then adding the other notes with the index and little finger.

NOTE: The intro tabbed for 2 guitars is at the bottom of the page

CAPO: 4th fret (Will then sound in the original recorded key of C#m)

Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
 = x02210     = 020200       = x00033
  = 320033         = 020100     = 133210 or xx3210
  = 133211          = x32010

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  [Intro] (Ada
              
e |-----------
B |------0---3
G |----2------
D |--2-----2--
A |-----------
E |-----------

pted for one p
              
------|------0
-1-0--|-------
------|----2--
------|--2----
------|-------
------|-------

layer, see bot
              
-1-0-----|----
-----3---|--1-
---------|----
---------|----
---------|----
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tom of page fo
              
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3-1-0--------|
--------2-0--|
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r two guitar riff)
  
--0--|
--0--|
--2--|
--0--|
--2--|
--0--|

[Verse 1]
              
All the leaves

           
 are brown,   

             
              

             
 and the sky i

  
s grey,
                  (All the leaves are brown----------!)

              
              

           
       I've be

                      
en for a walk,
(And the sky is grey-----,           I've been for a walk...)

             
On a winter's 

        
day,  (...on a

          
 winter's day!

)

              
I'd be safe an

           
d warm,       

            
       if I wa

                      
s in L. A. 
               (I’d be safe and warm--------           if I was in L. A.)

            
California dre

            
am------------

             
-in’, on such 

           
a winter's day

  
--------!
          (Cali - fornia dreamin’ on such a winter's day--------!)

[Verse 2]
              
Stopped into a

           
 church,      

             
   I passed a 

          
- long the way

  
,

             
Well, I got do

             
wn on my knees

          
,             

             
 and I pre - t

       
end to pray,
                      (Got down on my knees----------------)

              
              

            
    You know, 

        
the preacher l

                       
ikes the cold,
(I pretend to pray!)                        (The preacher likes the cold!)

             
He knows I'm g

        
onna stay,   (

              
Knows I'm gonn

  
a stay!)

            
California dre

            
amin’,        

             
       on such

            
 a winter's da

  
y--------!
          (Cali  - fornia dreamin’ on such a winter's day--------!)

[Bridge]
            
|  /  /  /  / 

           
 |  /  /  /  /

            
  |  /  /  /  

            
/  |  /  /  / 

 /  |

           
|  /  /  /  / 

           
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  |  /  /  /  

      
/  |  /  /  / 

 /  |

           
|  /  /  /  / 

            
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/  |  /  /  / 

 /  |

           
|  /  /  /  / 

            
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/  |  /  /  / 

 /  |

[Verse 3]
              
All the leaves

            
 are brown,   

            
              

             
 and the sky i

  
s grey,
                  (All the leaves are brown----------!)

              
              

           
       I've be

                      
en for a walk,
(And the sky is grey-----,           I've been for a walk...)

             
On a winter's 

        
day,  (...on a

          
 winter's day!

)

            
If I didn’t te

            
ll her,       

              
         I cou

             
ld leave to - 


day,
           (If  I   didn’t tell her-----------------...

              
(...I could le

         
ave to - day!)

            
California dre

            
amin’,        

             
       on such

            
 a winter's da

y!
          (Cali  - fornia dreamin’!)

[Coda]
             
              

            
          On s

              
uch a winter's

 
 day,
(Cali - fornia dreamin’----!

             
              

             
          On s

             
uch a winter's

          
 day-------!
(Cali - fornia dreamin’ on such a winter's day-------!)

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[Intro for 2 guitars - NOTE both guitars are Capoed at the 4th fret]
 
Guitar 1:     
e |-----------
B |------0----
G |----2------
D |--2-----2--
A |-----------
E |-----------

              
--------|-----
3--1-0--|-----
--------|----2
--------|--2--
--------|-----
--------|-----

              
--------------
-0----3--1-0--
--------------
---2----------
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--------------

              
|-------------
|------0----3-
|----2--------
|--2-----2----
|-------------
|-------------

        E7sus4
------|---0---
-1-0--|---0---
------|---2---
------|---0---
------|---2---
------|---0---

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Guitar 2:     
e |-----------
B |-----------
G |-----------
D |-----------
A |-----------
E |-----------

              
--------|-----
--------|-----
--------|-----
--------|-----
--------|-----
--------|-----

              
-0-1---0------
----------3---
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|-------------
|----1--3-1--0
|-------------
|-------------
|-------------
|-------------

        E7sus4
------|---0---
------|---3---
-2-0--|---2---
------|---0---
------|---2---
------|---0---

 
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