California Girls Tab - Beach Boys






"California Girls"
    (Brian Wilson / Mike Love)

Intro:

Electric 12-string [measures 1-4]:

[B]
 v   v   v   v   v
----------------------
-----9---7------------
-----9---8---9-8------
-9---9--99--9----9-11-
----------------------
----------------------

Bass [enters on measure 2]:

 v   v   v   v   v
-----1----------------
---------4---2-1------
-2------2---2----2-4--
----------------------

Electric 12-string [measure 5]:

[A]
 v   v   v   v   v
----------------------
-----7---5------------
-----7---6---7-6---6--
-7---7--77--7----7----
----------------------
----------------------

Bass [measure 5]:

 v   v   v   v   v
----------------------
-----4---2---0--------
-0------0---0--4-0-4--
----------------------

Horns [arr. for guitar]:

measures 1,2:tacit
measure 3:B (octaves)x2x4xx
measure 4:E/Bx2210x
measure 5:Em/A x0200x

Verse 1:

      B                                  B9 
Well, East Coast girls are hip, I really dig those styles they wear
         E
And the Southern girls with the way they talk 
              F#
They knock me out when I'm down there
     B                                 B9
The midwest farmers' daughters really make you feel alright
         E         
And the Northern girls with the way they kiss
                F#
They keep their boyfriends warm at night

Chorus:

  B                  C#m7
I wish they all could be California,
  A                   Bm7
I wish they all could be California,
  G                   Am7           B
I wish they all could be California Girls

Verse 2:

The West coast has the sunshine, and the girls all get so tanned
I dig a French bikini on Hawaiian Island dolls
By a palm tree in the sand
I been all around this great big world and I've seen
      all kinds of girls
But I couldn't wait to get back in the states,  
Back to the cutest girls in the world

[repeat chorus]

Organ break [arr. for guitar]

 v   v   v   v     v   v   v   v
-7-------7------7|-9-------9---9----
----79--7---79---|----79--7--79-----
-----------------|------------------
-----------------|------------------
-----------------|------------------
-----------------|------------------

bass:

 v   v   v   v     v   v   v   v
-----------------|----6-------------
-----------------|--------86--42----
-----------------|----------------4-
-----------------|------------------


Coda [repeat to fade]:

  B                                  C#m7
I wish they all could be California girls
                                   (wish they all could be California)


-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers
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