Long December

Standard Tuning
Capo 3rd Fret

intro: D G Em G D  G Em

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A long December and there's reason to believe
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Maybe this year will be better than the last
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I can't remember the last thing that you said
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as you were leavin'
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Now the days go by so fast

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And it's one more day up in the canyons
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And it's one more night in Hollywood
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If you think that I could be forgiven...I wish you would

  G   Em  G ....
nanananananananana..

G       D A
The smell of hospitals in winter
Em G        D G
And the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters, but no pearls
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All at once you look across a crowded room
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To see the way that light attaches to a girl

         D               G         Em    G
And it's one more day up in the canyons
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And it's one more night in Hollywood
         D                  G        Em -stop-           D
If you think you might come to California...I think you should
  G   Em  G ....
nanananananananana..


G     D A Em
Drove up to the Hillside Manor sometime after two a.m.
G           D G
And talked a little while about the year
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I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower
Em         D
Makes you talk a little lower about
G
the things you could not show her

         G       D                  A            Em

And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe

      G                D               G
Maybe this year will be better than the last
Em      G        D                    A
I can't remember all the times I tried to tell myself
Em D G
To hold on to these moments as they pass

         D               G         Em    G
And it's been one more day up in the canyon
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And it's one more night in Hollywood
         D                  G        Em -stop-           D
It's been so long since I've seen the ocean...I guess I should
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nanananananananana.... (Repeat)