Goodbye California

Intro 
(Whistling) 


 
      G 
As I drive out of Los Angeles 
     C 
The hot wind blows my hair to frizz 
     G              C                  D7    D7 
I'm sweating in my homemade dress and tights 
           G 
Packed my life into my Subaru 
   C 
I wish my friends were coming too 
         G             D              G 
They're all that I regret to leave behind 
 

 
         G 
Singing goodbye California 
         C              G 
You were always fair to me 
      Em               C 
Oh I tried so hard to love you 
       G               D 
And I tried so hard to be 

      G 
As deserving as the others 
        C               
Laying kisses at your feet 
    C           G 
Oh goodbye California 
         C       D      G 
You were always fair to me 

(Whistle) 
 

 
       G 
And a moon the size of Hertfordshire 
   C 
Rises above the plains of Utah 
G               Em             D 
In the roadside inn, I drink alone 
         G 
And the whiskey tastes a bit like him 
   C 
A burn of all that might have been 
      G                  D          G 
Gets caught just like a song inside my throat 
 

 
         G 
Singing goodbye California 
         C              G 
You were always fair to me 
      Em               C 
Oh I tried so hard to love you 
       G               D 
And I tried so hard to be 

      G 
As deserving as the others 
        C               
Laying kisses at your feet 
    C           G 
Oh goodbye California 
         C       D      G 
You were always fair to me 

(Whistle) 
C  G  C D G 
 

 
     C 
And now it's time for promises 
    D 
We say we'll talk, we'll visit 
        B7                            Em 
And we mean it but I know the way it goes 

        C 
I will start to disappear 
           D 
Softly at first like rain and tears 
        B7                          Em 
Eventually my ghost will walk this town alone 
       C  G  Am   G   D 
Somebody you used to know 

         G 
Singing goodbye, goodbye, goodbye 
 C 
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye 
 G                           D 
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye-ye-ye 
 

 
         G 
Singing goodbye California 
         C              G 
You were always fair to me 
      Em               C 
Oh I tried so hard to love you 
       G               D 
And I tried so hard to be 

      G 
As deserving as the others 
        C               
Laying kisses at your feet 
    C           G 
Oh goodbye California 
         C       D      G 
You were always fair to me 

(Whistle) 
C  G  C D G 
 

Outro 
 C           G 
Goodbye California 
         C       D      G 
You were always fair to me