California English

This song can be played with open chords, but I think that it sounds much better played with barre chords. Also, if you watch a live performance, The band members play it with barre chords. C C C Wouldn’t ever gag you with a spoon, my only true love C C C Never really heard you speak that way, it’s unworthy of… C C C Funny how that little college girl called language corrupt C C C Funny how the other private schools had no Hapa Club C C C Someone took a trip before you came to ski in the Alps C C C Your father moved across the country just to sunburn his scalp C C C Contra Costa, Contra Mundum, contradict what I say C C C F Living like the French Connection, but we’ll die in LA Em G C F Blasted from a disconnected light switch Em G C F Through the condo that they’ll never finish Em G C F Bounced across a Saudi satellite dish Em G C C C C And through your brain to California English C C C No one sits inside a freezing flat and stays there ‘til May C C C Leafing through a stack of A-Zs to surf the UK C C C Waiting with the wind against your face and gel in your hair C C C F Shivering in little undershirts, but don’t seem to care Em G C F Blasted from a disconnected light switch Em G C F Through the condo that they’ll never finish Em G C F Bounced across a Saudi satellite dish Em G C C C C And through your brain to California English G Sweet carob rice cake F C She don’t care how the sweets taste F Fake Philly cheese steak Em C But she use real toothpaste F Cuz if that Tom’s don’t work C If it just makes you worse F G C Would you loose all of your faith in the good earth F And if it’s all a curse C And we’re just getting worse F G C Baby, please don’t lose your faith in the good earth Em G C F Blasted from a disconnected light switch Em G C F Through the condo that they’ll never finish Em G C F Bounced across a Saudi satellite dish Em G C C C C And through your brain to California English