Subject:  more alt.country tabs Wilco/Bragg
Date:     Sun, 25 Oct 1998 15:43:58 -0400
From:     christopher.gehrz@yale.edu (Christopher Allan Gehrz)
To:       settler@mailer.uni-marburg.de


"California Stars"

By Woody Guthrie, Jay Bennett, and Jeff Tweedy
From Billy Bragg & Wilco's 1998 Elektra release MERMAID AVENUE
© Woody Guthrie Publications/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing
Corp./
  Words Ampersand Music (BMI)/Titanic Majesties Music (ASCAP)

Note: as near as I can tell (partly from seeing their Conan
O'Brien
performance of this song), this is written in A Major,
although the pitch
is a little funky on the CD version.

INTRO: A | A | E | E | D | D | A | A

VERSE ONE:
I'd like to [A]rest my heavy head tonight
On a [E]bed of California stars
I'd like to [D]lay my weary bones tonight
On a [A]bed of California stars

VERSE TWO:
I'd love to feel your hand touching mine
And tell me why I must keep working on
Yes, I'd give my life to lay my head tonight
On a bed of California stars

LAP STEEL SOLO I [over VERSE chords]

VERSE THREE:
I'd like to dream my troubles all away
On a bed of California stars
Jump up from my starbed and make another day
Underneath my California stars

VERSE FOUR:
They hang like grapes on vines that shine
And warm the lovers glass like friendly wine
So I'd give this world just to dream a dream with you
On our bed of California stars

LAP STEEL SOLO II

repeat VERSES ONE and TWO

LAP STEEL/VIOLIN BREAK

repeat VERSES THREE and FOUR

PIANO/VIOLIN BREAK

VIOLIN SOLO: A | A | E | E

OUTRO:
I'd [D]give this world just to dream a dream of you
On our [A]bed of California stars

keep repeating rhythm pattern under lap steel, piano, and
acoustic guitar solos