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California Girls Tab

by Beach Boys


			"California Girls"
		    (Brian Wilson / Mike Love)

Intro:

	Electric 12-string [measures 1-4]:

	[]
	 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]:

	[]
	 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:				x2210x
	measure 5:		 		x0200x

Verse 1:

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

Chorus:

	                    
	I wish they all could be California,
	                     
	I wish they all could be California,
	                                
	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]:

	                                    
	I wish they all could be California girls
	                                   (wish they all could be California)


-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers