- HOTEL "CALIFORNIA" -


Am   
On a dark desert highway
Em
Cool wind in my hair -
G
Warm smell of coletus
D
Rising up thru the air
F
Up ahead in the distance
C
I saw a shimmer of light;
Dm
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim,
Em - E
I had to stop for the night -


And there she stood in the doorway,
I heard the mission bell;
And I was thinking to myself,
"This could be heaven
and this could be hell..."
Then she lit up a candle
And she showed me the way,
There were voices down the corridor,
And I heard'em say -

F                            C
"Welcome to the Hotel "California",
Dm
Such a lovely place,
                           Am               
                    Such a lovely face,
Em- E -F                                  C
        Plenty of room in the Hotel "California",
      Dm
Any time of year

                 (Any time of year)
          E     
You can find it here..."


(all the other verses and the chorus part are no different; just follow the
model above.)


Her mind is tiffany-twisted,
She got a Mersedes-Benz;
She got a lot, a lot of pretty boys
That she calls friends
How they dance in the cortyard -
Sweet summer sweat;
Some dance to remember,
Some dance to forget...

So I called up the Captain,
"Please, bring me my wine!"
(He said) -
"We haven't had that spirit here since
Nineteen sixty-nine...
But still those voices are comin' from fa-ar away,
Wake you up in the middle of the night,
Just to hear'em say,


"Welcome to the Hotel "California',
Such a lovely place,
                   Such a lovely face,
Living it up in the Hotel "California".
What a nice surprise,
                   When you're out of lies..."



Mirrors on the ceiling,
They drink champaign on ice,
(And she said,)
"We are all just prisoners here