Back to California Chords

KeyEm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays605

Back to California by Wallflowers is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords Em, B, C, G, Am and D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Em
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  			Em B C G 
(I think the whole verse is Em) 
Feels like a ghost here in this room 
Not the kind that rides a saddle in a costume 
All around me, all around you 
In from the window for a drag of your perfume 
Em     B    C         G 
Let's move back to California 
Em                B         C             G    
Let's make a promise, baby Let's both be there 
Em        B          C      G 
Put our feet deep in the sands 
Am 
This garden's only got four corners 
C                         D 
Back to your trenches, back to California 
Em 
The days keep coming and the years overlap 
Been crawling all over each other like wet cats 
I hear the rebels yelling out in the dunes 
And I don't think it's half as funny as I used to 
 
Let's move back to California 
Let's make a promise, baby 
Let's both be there 
Put our feet deep in the sands 
Let's leave behind these maps and handguns 
We're on our way back to California 
  G                       C 
We've got California in our eyes 
Come on and catch us if you can 
 G                      C 
With California in our eyes 
Passing down through a valley of lost sheep 
Straight is the gate, narrow is the walkway 
Mercury rising and poppies in bloom 
This is the kind of thing that I can get used to 
Let's move back to California 
Let's make a promise, baby 
Let's both be there 
Put our feet deep in the sands 
There's still no shortage in creating bad blood 
We're on our way back to California 
 G                c 
We've got California in our eyes 
Come on and catch us if you can 
 G                C 
With California in our eyes 
Fast as we can 
 G           C 
Back to California 
Come on and catch us if you can 
 G          C 
Back to California 
Fast as we can 
 G          C 
Back to California 
 

    	

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

100 BPM Andante