Intro
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[Verse 1]
C
I've been over Sonora, I've slept upon Sequoia
G
I've camped by the Redwoods as well
I've sunbathed in Bishop, been burned to a crisp
C
And many more things I can tell
G
My backpack has oft been my pillow
C
The granite has oft been my bed
G
And sooner than part from the mountains
C
I think I would rather be dead
[Chorus]
C G
I'm a rambler, I'm a rambler from down by the bay
C
I get all my pleasure the hard-working way
G
I may be a wage slave on Monday
C
But I am a free soul on Sunday
[Verse 2]
C
The day was just ending and I was descending
G
Down San Jacinto by Palm Springs
When a voice cried "Hey you" in the way guards do
C
He'd the worst face that ever I saw
G
The things that he said were unpleasant
C
In the teeth of his fury I said
G
"Sooner than part from the mountains
C
I think I would rather be dead"
[Chorus]
C G
I'm a rambler, I'm a rambler from down by the bay
C
I get all my pleasure the hard-working way
G
I may be a wage slave on Monday
C
But I am a free soul on Sunday
[Verse 3]
C
He called me dirty and said "private property"
G
Well i thought, but I still couldn't see
Why all Martin's beach and the coast roundabout
C
Couldn't take both the billionare and me
G
He said "All this land is my master's"
C
At that I stood shaking my head
G
No man has the right to own mountains
C
Any more than the deep ocean bed
[Chorus]
C G
I'm a rambler, I'm a rambler from down by the bay
C
I get all my pleasure the hard-working way
G
I may be a wage slave on Monday
C
But I am a free soul on Sunday
[Verse 3]
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I once loved a maid, a spot welder by trade
F
She was bright as the poppy in bloom
And the bloom of her eye watched the blue scrubland sky
A#
I wooed her from April to June
F
On the day that we should have been married
A#
I went for a ramble instead
F
For sooner than part from the mountains
A#
I think I would rather be dead
[Chorus]
C G
I'm a rambler, I'm a rambler from down by the bay
C
I get all my pleasure the hard-working way
G
I may be a wage slave on Monday
C
But I am a free soul on Sunday
[Verse 4]
A#
So I'll walk where I will over mountain and hill
F
And I'll lie where the pine duff is deep
I belong to the mountains, the clear running fountains
A#
Where the grey rocks lie ragged and steep
F
I've seen the white-tailed deer in the valleys
A#
And the condor fly high overhead
F
And sooner than part from the mountains
A#
I think I would rather be dead
[Chorus]
C G
I'm a rambler, I'm a rambler from down by the bay
C
I get all my pleasure the hard-working way
G
I may be a wage slave on Monday
C
But I am a free soul on Sunday
- 1. Chord Gitar Ewan MacColl - The California Rambler Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar D)
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