Key: E
Introduction: Em
D C Em
California dreamer
D C Em
Tell me why did you go?
D C B Em
I carved your ever fading figure
D C B Em
Into the ever dying snow
Am G#+ Em
I'll be around, I'll be around, I'll be around
Am G#+ Em
Like a teenager in town
Am G#+ Em
Where all the other young lovers are found
Em D C G
And I think I mighta heard you on the radio
Am B Em
But the radio waves were like snow
D C Em
And you were dreaming of Los Angeles
D C Em
While I was singing songs you wrote
D C B Em
You quietly gave away the winter clothes I made for you
D C B Em
While I made angels in the snow
Am G#+ Em
I would have left if you just asked me to
Am G#+ Em
Or come to me before the preacher
Am Ab
Now you're a survivor
Em D C G
And I just thought I mighta heard you on the radio
Am B Em
But the radio waves were like snow
Em D C G
I thought I mighta heard you on the radio
Am B Em
But the radio waves were like snow
Am Em
Do the young stay pretty?
B C
Do the pretty stay quick?
G Am C
You know, but you never surrender
Em D C G
The city doesn't belong to you anymore
Am B Em
California dreamer
Em
You dream of seasons that never die
You go to oceans that never touch the ice
Em D C G
And I think I mighta heard you on the radio
Am B Em
But the radio waves were like snow
Em D C G
Oh I think I mighta heard you on the radio
Am B Em
But the radio waves were like snow
Am Em
Do the young stay pretty?
B C
Do the pretty stay quick?
G Am C
You know, but you never surrender
Em D C G
The city doesn't belong to you anymore
Am B Em
California dreamer
Am G#+ Em
I'll be around, I'll be around, I'll be around
Am G#+ Em
Like a teenager in town
Am G#+ G C
With all the other young lovers their mothers may have found
Am G#+ Em
California dreamer