California Dreamin - The Mamas & The Papas


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California Dreamin' - The Mamas and the Papas

Original tune (first two lines)
    A4/7
   A7()   A4/7 



[Verse 1]
            
All the leaves

    |   .   
 are brown    

      .    |
              

   .        .
And the sky is

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 gray         

      
      
all the  leaves are brown                and the sky is gray)

  .        
I've been for 

             
a walk        

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             O

           
n a winter's d

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ay
I've been for a walk                     on a winter's day)

            
I'd be safe an

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d warm        

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If I was in L.

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A.
I'd   be  safe  and warm                  if I was in L.A.

[Chorus]
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California dre

 .    .  |  
amin'         

             
    On such a 

        |      
winter's day
California dreamin' On such a winter's day)

[Solo Voc]
 . .        
     Stopped i

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n to a church 

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      I passed

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 al-ong the wa

/            |
y  
           
  Well I get d

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own on my knee

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s     And I pr

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e-tend to pray
                     (got down on my knees)            (I pretend to pray) 
            
  You know the

              
 preacher like

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s the cold    

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                                  (preacher likes the co-
            
 He knows I'm 

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gonna stay
ld)                     (knows I'm gonna stay)

[Chorus]
         |
California dre

 .    .  |  
amin'         

             
    On such a 

        |   |      
winter's day
California dreamin' On such a winter's day

[Flute solo]
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|   |  |E4/7 |   |
|   |    |E4/7 |   |
|   |    |E4/7 |   |

[Verse 3]
              
All the leaves

    |   .   
 are brown    

      .    |
              

   .        .
And the sky is

  |       
 gray         

      
      
all the  leaves are brown                 and the sky is gray

  .        
I've been for 

    |        
a walk        

       |
             O

           
n a winter's d

  |             
ay
I've been for a walk                     on a winter's day

            
If I didn't te

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ll her        

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I could leave 

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today
If I didn't tell her                      I could leave today


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California dre

 .    .  |  
amin'         

             
    On such a 

              
winter's 
California dreamin' On such a winter's -
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California dre

             
amin'  On such

             
 a winter's
- day) 
 .    . | 
California dre

             
amin'  On such

            |
 a winter's  d

 . . . |
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