La Chords
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| Difficulty: | beginner |
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| Tuning: | E A D G B E |
| Capo: | no capo |
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Artist: Neil Young
Song: L.A.
Album: Time Fades Away
[Intro]
E D E D E
e|--------0-0--------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------0------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--0h1-------2-1-2-1------------------------------------------------------| x2
D|--------------------2-2------0-0--0-----------2------0-0--0-----------2--|
A|-------------------------0h2--------2-0----------0h2--------2-0----------|
E|----------------------------------------3b4-0-------------------3b4-0----|
[Verse 1]
E
In a matter of time
D
There'll be a friend of mine
Bm
Gonna come to the coast
A
You're gonna see him
E
Up close for a minute or two
D G
While the ground cracks under you
E D E
e|--------0-0--------------------------------------|
B|------0------------------------------------------|
G|--0h1-------2-1-2-1------------------------------|
D|--------------------2-2------0-0--0-----------2--|
A|-------------------------0h2--------2-0----------|
E|----------------------------------------3b4-0----|
[Verse 2]
E
By the look in your eyes
D
You'd think that it was a surprise
Bm
But you seem to forget
A
Something somebody said
E
About the bubbles in the sea
D G
And an ocean full of trees
Cmaj7
And you now
[Chorus]
Fmaj7 Cmaj7 Fmaj7
L.A., Uptight
Cmaj7 Fmaj7
City in the smog, city in the smog
Cmaj7 Fmaj7
Don't you wish that you could be here too?
Cmaj7 Fmaj7
Don't you wish that you could be here too?
Cmaj7 Fmaj7
Don't you wish that you could be here too?
[Bridge]
F Em F F Em Cmaj7 F Em F
[Verse 3]
E
Well, it's hard to believe
D
So you get up to leave
Bm
And you laugh at the door
A
That you heard it all before
E
Oh it's so good to know
D G
That it's all just a show for you
E D E
e|--------0-0--------------------------------------|
B|------0------------------------------------------|
G|--0h1-------2-1-2-1------------------------------|
D|--------------------2-2------0-0--0-----------2--|
A|-------------------------0h2--------2-0----------|
E|----------------------------------------3b4-0----|
[Verse 4]
E
But when the suppers are planned
D
And the freeways are crammed
Bm
And the mountains erupt
A
And the valley is sucked
E
Into cracks in the earth
D G Cmaj7
Will I finally be heard by you
[Chorus]
Fmaj7 Cmaj7 Fmaj7
L.A., Uptight
Cmaj7 Fmaj7
City in the smog, city in the smog
Cmaj7 Fmaj7
Don't you wish that you could be here too?
Cmaj7 Fmaj7
Don't you wish that you could be here too?
Cmaj7 Fmaj7
Don't you wish that you could be here too?
[Outro]
F Em F F Em Cmaj7
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This is one of of those many, many Neil songs that slipped in under the radar. The "Doom Trilogy" had so many gigantic slabs of genius that it was easy to miss little gems like this one.Apparently dealing with an LA earthquake (and tsunami?) it feels like a song that Neil may have hopped out of bed in the middle of the night in a burst of inspiration and wrote what he was hearing in his head. Or pulled over to the side of the road to scribble the lyrics, Or maybe it was written to be the theme song of a movie one of his buddies wrote on a bad acid trip. Either way, this song is a marvel of simplicity made complicated by the mystery of the lyrics. The maj 7ths make it happen. I've been playing this sing wrong for years and it's nice to have the right sequence now. Thank you.
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