Cruising California Bumpin In My Trunk Chords

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Cruising California Bumpin In My Trunk by The Offspring is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, D, Em and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Intro: G D Em C  (2x) 

Ay oh let’s go 


Chorus 1: 
G 
Oh oh oh! 
D 
  Turn up the beat 
      Em 
yeah (Oh oh oh!) 
C 
  I want to feel it 
 G 
(California) 
          D 
Don’t you wish 
that you could 
come? Cause we’re 
Em 
never going home 
         C 
Till the summer’s 
all gone 


verse 1: 
G 
Summer time 
living is easy 
D 
Cruising bumping 
my Huntington Beach 
          Em 
Cause the sun will 
shine We’ll have a 
               C 
good time They all 
line up for a 
bump and grind 
        G 
And the girl that you 
          D 
want is directly out 
in front And she’s 
Em 
waving her caboose 
            C 
at you You sneeze achoo 
She calls you out and boom! 


Refrain 1: 
G 
  I know you heard that 
     D 
bass bumping in my trunk 
    Em 
Bum bumping in my trunk 
    C 
Bum bumping in my  
trunk (Oh yeah) 
G 
  I know you heard 
          D 
that bass bumping  
in my trunk 
(Uh huh) 
    Em 
Bum bumping 
in my trunk 
(Uh huh) 
    C 
Bum bumping  
in my trunk 
(Let’s go) 


(Repeat Chorus 1) 


verse 2: 
    G 
The sun goes down 
the friepit’s leep 
      D 
It’s another summer 
night here in the oc 
     Em 
Well I know a baller 
but i do have an impala 
      C 
And I might say hey 
but i’ll never say holla 
    G 
The girl with the glass 
      D 
And A G string 
just like a floss 
           Em 
Well she’s waving 
her caboose at you 
  C 
I bet you do 
She calls you 
out (Uh huh) 


(Repeat Refrain 1) 


Chorus 2: 
G 
Oh oh oh! 
D 
  Turn up the beat 
      Em 
yeah (Oh oh oh!) 
C 
  I want to feel it 
 G 
(California) 
          D 
Don’t you wish 
that you could 
come? Cause we’re 
Em 
never going home 
         C 
Till the summer’s 
all gone 
 G 
(Go go go!) 
D 
  You’re all 

i’m breaking 
 Em 
(Oh oh oh!) 
C 
  My friends  
are drinking 
 G 
(California) 
          D 
Don’t you wish 
that you could 
come? Cause we’re 
Em 
never going home 
         C 
Till the summer’s 
all gone 


Bridge: 
G         D 
California 
Em        C 
California 


Refrain 2: 
G 
  I know you heard that 
     D 
bass bumping in my trunk 
    Em 
Bum bumping in my trunk 
    C 
Bum bumping in my  
trunk (hey ho let's go) 


Chorus 3: 
G 
Oh oh oh! 
D 
  Turn up the beat 
      Em 
yeah (Oh oh oh!) 
C 
  I want to feel it 
 G 
(California) 
          D 
Don’t you wish 
that you could 
come? Cause we’re 
Em 
never going home 
         C 
Till the summer’s 
all gone 
 G 
(Go go go!) 
D 
  You’re all 

i’m breaking 
 Em 
(Oh oh oh!) 
C 
  My friends  
are drinking 
 G 
(California) 
          D 
Don’t you wish 
that you could 
come? Cause we’re 
Em 
never going home 
         C 
Till the summer’s 
all gone 
 G 
(California) 
          D 
Don’t you wish 
that you could 
come? Cause we’re 
Em 
never going home 
         C 
Till the summer’s 
all gone 


Outro: G D Em C  (2x) 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

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