Cadd2: x 3 0 0 1 0 Dmadd2:x x 0 0 3 1 Fadd2: 1 3 3 0 1 1 Cadd2 (x2) Cadd2 Cadd2 There is a city by the sea, a gentle com - pa - ny, I don't suppose you want to And as it tells its sorry tale, in harrowing detail Its hollowness will haunt you Dmadd2 Fadd2 Its streets and boulevards, orphans and oligarchs it hears Fadd2 Dmadd2 A plaintive melody, truncated symphony Fadd2 An ocean's garbled vomit on the shore, Los Angeles, I'm yours Cadd2 (x4) Oh ladies pleasant and demure, sallow-cheeked and sure I can see your undies And all the boys you drag about, an empty fallow fount From Saturdays to Mondays You hill and valley crowd, hanging your trousers down at heel This is the realest thing, as ancient choirs sing A dozen blushing cherubs wheel above Los Angeles my love Cadd2 (x2) . . . (solos) Oh what a rush of ripe élan, languor on divans, dalliant and dainty But oh the smell of burnt cocaine, the dolor and decay It only makes me cranky Dmadd2 Oh great calamity, ditch of iniquity and tears Dmadd2 How I abhor this place, its sweet and bitter taste Has left me wretched, retching on all fours Los Angeles, I'm yours Los Angeles, I'm yours Los Angeles, I'm yours