California Sunshine Girl by Roy Orbison, tabs and chords at PlayUkuleleNET

California Sunshine Girl

Biography:

Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988), nicknamed "The Big O", was an influential American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll, whose recording career spanned more than four decades. By the mid-1960s Orbison was internationally recognized for his ballads of lost love, rhythmically advanced melodies, three-octave vocal range, characteristic dark sunglasses, and sometimes distinctive usage of falsetto, typified in songs such as "Only the Lonely, "Oh, Pretty Woman", and "Crying".

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California Sunshine Girl – Roy Orbison
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Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

Roy Orbison
California Sunshine Girl
(Letha Purdom)

From: “Milestones” (1973)

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[Intro] / [Interlude] / [Coda]
Dm Dmmaj7 Dm7 Dm6
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
e|1---1-1---------|1---1-1---------|
B|3---3-2---------|1---1-0---------|
G|2-2-------------|2-2-------------|
D|0---------------|0---------------|
A|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|

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CHORDS

E-A-D-G-B-e
Dm x-x-0-2-3-1
Dmmaj7 x-x-0-2-2-1
Dm7 x-x-0-2-1-1
Dm6 x-x-0-2-0-1
Bb/D x-x-0-3-3-1
Bdim/D x-x-0-4-3-1
Dm/A x-0-x-2-3-1

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[Intro]
| Dm Dmmaj7 | Dm7 Dm6 |
| Dm Dmmaj7 | Dm7 Dm6 |
| Dm C Am C | Dm

[Verse]
Dm Dmmaj7
California woman
Dm7 Dm6 Dm Bb/D
Hanging heavy on my mind
Bdim/D Bb/D Gm
Never found another like her
| Dm Dm/A | Dm
Guess she was just one of a kind (break)
[ Dm ] Gm
She never wrapped no strings around me
C F Am
She could treat a man so fi-ine
Dm Gm
I still see her golden hai-ai-ai-air
A Dm C Am C Dm
And the California sunshine (break)

[Chorus]
Gm C F Am
Mississippi rain(-ain) falling on my head
Dm Gm C F
No California woman sleeping in my bed
F F Gm C F Am
Makes me wanna move on, leave all this behind
Dm Gm A [ Dm ]
I need my California woman ... and the California sunshine

[Instrumental break]
| Dm Dmmaj7 | Dm7 Dm6 |
| Dm Dmmaj7 | Dm7 Dm6 |
| Dm C A C | Dm

[verse]
Dm Dmmaj7
Golden California beaches
Dm7 Dm6 Dm Bb/D
Knocking on a beach house door
Bdim/D Bb/D Gm
They say that California woman
| Dm Dm/A | Dm
She don't live here anymore (break)
[ Dm ] Gm
They say she left here with a stranger
C F Am
Leaving nothing left behind
Dm Gm
She buried all my dreams here
A Dm C A C Dm
In the California sunshine (break)

[Chorus]
Gm C F Am
Mississippi rain(-ain) falling on my head
Dm Gm C F
No California woman sleeping in my bed
F F Gm C F Am
Makes me wanna move on, leave all this here behind
Dm Gm A [ Dm ]
I need my California woman ... and the California sunshine

[Coda]
| Dm Dmmaj7 | Dm7 Dm6 |

Dm Dmmaj7 | Dm7 Dm6 |
I need my California woman
Dm C A C D
And the California sunshi-i-ine