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