It Never Rains In Southern California3

by (chromatic) Albert Hammond · posted by WaltP

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IT NEVER RAINS (IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA)3
By: Albert Hammond & Michael Hazelwood
Albert Hammond
Key: G


-5  6   -7   6  -7    7   -7  7  -7  -7 7 6-5 
Got on board a west-bound sev-en for-ty se-ven. 
-5   6    -7  7   -7  7  -7   7  -8   7  7 
Did-n’t think be-fore de-cid-ing what to do. 
-9   -8   -7  -7 -7  7  -7 -7  -8 
All that talk of op-por-tun-i-ties, 
7 7    7     7   6  -5 
T.V. breaks and mov-ies, 
 7    -7    -8   -8 -7 7
rang true  sure rang true. 
 
-5    6  -7  7   -7   7   -7    7
Seems it ne-ver rains in South-ern 
-7 -7  7  6-5
Cal-i-for-nia. 
 -5    6   -7  7   -7    7    -7
Seems I’ve of-ten heard that kind 
7  -8-7  7   7
of talk be-fore. 
-9 -8-7 7  -7   -7 -7  7 -7  -8 
It nev-er rains in Cal-i-for-nia, 
-7    7   7      7   6   -5 
but girl don’t they warn ya, 
7    -7   -8-7 7  7
it pours, man it pours 
-5  -5  -5   -5  -5  -5 -5 6 -5 
Out of work, I’m out ‘a my head, 
-5   6  -4  5   -5    -5  -5 -5  -5 
out of self re-spect, I’m out-a-bread. 
 7 -6*  6   -5    -5  -5  6  -5
I’m un-der loved, I’m un-der fed, 
-5 -5  6 -5  -9 
I wan-na go home. 
11 10  -9  -7   -7 -7  7 -7  -8 
It nev-er rains in Cal-i-for-nia, 
-7    7   7      7   6   -5 
but girl, don’t they warn ya, 
7    -7   -8-7 7  7
it pours, man it pours.

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