Woody Guthrie's New Years Rulins_Notebook13_650

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"California Stars"

 

(words by WOODY GUTHRIE music by Jay Bennett & Jeff Tweedy

adapted admirably by any standards by Billy Bragg & WILCO)

 

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(as performed by Billy Bragg & WILCO @ 1995)

[Featured in the soundtrack for King Of California

 

I'd like to rest my heavy head tonight/ On a bed of California stars

I'd like to lay my weary bones tonight/ On a bed of California stars

I'd love to feel/ Your hand touching mine

And tell me why/ I must keep working on

Yes I'd give my life to lay my head tonight

On a bed of California stars

 

I'd like to dream My troubles all away/ On a bed of California stars

Jump up from my starbed/Make another day/ Underneath my California stars

They hang like grapes/ On vines that shine

And warm the lovers' glass/ Like friendly wine

So I'd give this world/ Just to dream a dream with you

On our bed of California stars

 

I'd like to rest my heavy head tonight/ On a bed of California stars

I'd like to lay my weary bones tonight/ On a bed of California stars

I'd love to feel/ Your hand touching mine

And tell me why/ I must keep working on

Yes I'd give my life/ To lay my head tonight

On a bed of California stars

 

I'd like to dream my troubles all away/ On a bed of California stars

Jump up from my starbed Make another day/ My California stars

They hang like grapes On vines that shine/ And warm the lovers' glass

Like friendly wine So I'd give this world/ Just to dream a dream with you

On our bed of California stars

 

So I'd give this world/ Just to dream a dream with you

On our bed of California stars

(Dream a dream with you)

 

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FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY!

 

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