California Christmastime

	  		
              B         D#       G#m 
Well, you can take your snow and shove it 
            E         B      F# 
This is our Christmas and we love it 
       B          D#                E 
It's a hundred degrees, this elf is Vietnamese 
           B                   F# 
That's the way that California does it 
         B     D#    G#m 
Even our Santa has a suntan 
     E       B          F# 
He's also an unemployed stuntman 
      B     D# 
Is he even awake? 
          E 
Yeah, I'm just really baked 
   B                      F# 
If he can be Santa Claus, anyone can! 
E          F# 
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     B             G# 
It's just a Golden State of mind 
E                    F#               D#m    G# 
Chet's nuts roasting in the bright sunlight! 

Put on some pants, Chet! 
    E                    F# 
And what would Christmas be without 
             B                         G# 
Historically low mountain snow causing staggering drought 
    E                F#             D#m 
But hey, this eggnog fro-yo's super tight! 
      G# 
Super tight! 
       C#m 
'Cause this is California 
    F#              B 
And we do Christmas right! 

Mmm, so good! 
                    E Em 
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       B       D#     G#m 
Don we now our surf apparel 
                E           B         F# 
And we have our own kind of Christmas carol 
          B           D# 
It's this chick named Carol 
         E 
She does henna tattoos 
        B 
Carol's fifty, but no judgement 
            F# 
She's still finding herself 

We're all finding ourselves! 
            C#    F    A#m 
Okay, there is no easy answer 
        F#         C#      G# 
For our high rates of skin cancer 
   C#            F 
It took my dad's life 
       F# 
And it killed my wife 
C#              G# 
   Hang ten, Rudolph and Prancer! 
F#         G# 
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   C#                     A# 
We gather 'round and sing songs by Sublime 
    F#            G#               Fm    A# 
And all our local reggae bands are white 
    F#                       G# 
The kids get lots of toys on Christmas morn 
       C#                      A# 
'Cause daddy makes big bucks directing porn 
     F# 
They may have gonorrhea 
       G#                  Fm 
But at least it's not frostbite! 
              A# 
It's not frostbite! 
       D#m 
'Cause this is California 
    G#              C# 
And we do Christmas right! 
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