California (Remastered LP Version)

Song California (Remastered LP Version)
Artist Joni Mitchell
Album Dreamland

Lyrics

[00:10.57] Sitting in a park in Paris, France
[00:13.17] Reading the news. and it sure looks bad
[00:15.97] They don't give peace a chance
[00:17.81] It was just a dream some of us had
[00:20.56] Still a lot of lands to see
[00:23.26] But I wouldn't want to stay here
[00:25.11] It's too old and cold and settled in it's ways here
[00:30.47] Ah, but California
[00:32.74] California, I'm coming home
[00:38.26] I'm going to go see the folks I dig
[00:40.76] I'll even kiss the sunset pig
[00:43.60] California, I'm coming home
[00:54.27] I met a redneck on a Grecian isle
[00:56.72] Who did the goat dance very well
[00:59.22] He gave me back my smile,
[01:01.27] But he kept my camera to sell
[01:03.01] Oh the rogue, the red red rogue
[01:05.50] He cooked good omelettes and stews
[01:07.48] And I met have stayed on with him there
[01:09.63] But my heart cried out for you, California
[01:17.22] California, I'm coming home
[01:21.15] Oh make me feel good, rock and roll band
[01:24.02] I'm your biggest fan
[01:25.46] California, I'm coming home
[01:35.48] Oh it gets so lonely
[01:40.42] When you'r walking
[01:42.30] And the streets are full of strangers
[01:45.16] All the news of home you read
[01:49.58] Just gives you the blues
[01:54.52] Just gives you the blues
[02:08.84] So I bought me a ticket,
[02:10.17] I caught a plane to Spain
[02:11.92] Went to a party down a red dirt road
[02:14.17] There were lot's of pretty people there, reading Rolling Stone, reading Vogue
[02:19.51] They said, 'How long can you hang around?'
[02:21.50] I said, 'A week, maybe two,
[02:23.28] Just until my skin turns brown, then I'm going home
[02:28.61] To California.'
[02:31.10] California, I'm coming home
[02:36.72] Will you take me as I am
[02:38.85] Strung out on another man
[02:41.02] California, I'm coming home
[02:50.55] Oh it gets so lonely
[02:55.15] When you'r walking
[02:57.13] And the streets are full of strangers
[03:00.33] All the news of home you read
[03:04.78] More about the war and the bloody changes
[03:09.98] Oh, will you take me as I am?
[03:13.76] Will you take me as I am?
[03:16.38] Will you, will you take me as I am? Take me as I am?
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