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[Verse]
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When these old adobe walls
        C                  G
Turn to dust and when they fall
                                             D
And the creatures of the night call out your name
       G
Mother nature, she'll grab hold
           C                     G
Of all the things that we've let go
                              D                    G
Here comes an ill-intentioned wind that knows your name

[Verse]
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In the desert night it builds
     C            G
Near Gila Monster Hills
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A wisp of dust, then a whisper, then a curse
          G
Soon it's 90 miles an hour
        C            G
Near El Centro water towers
             D                    G
Look out, El Cajon, you'll be the first

[Chorus]
          D                        Em
Now those Santa Ana Winds begin to blow
           A                          D
From Death Valley to the wide Pacific shores
            C
Won't be no saints come marching in
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No movie stars or clergymen
               Em                                   C
Where will you run when that wind howls 'neath your door?
          Em        D              G
When that Santa Ana Wind begins to roar

[Instrumental]
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[Verse]
    G
California, my home state
        C              G
Cars of people sit and wait
                                                 D
They know it's coming, they can feel it in their bones
         G
All that real estate and pride
          C            G
All those Indians that died
                          D                   G
While the Spanish priests danced the drunk Fandango

[Verse]
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They say that troubadours invented love
           C                G
A thousand years before the flood
                                            D
They rode from town to town, singing up the mystery
          G
Well, the wind sings its own song
       C          G
Moving patiently along
                 D              G
Burning down the lie of Western History

[Chorus]
         D                        Em
Now that Santa Ana Wind begins to blow
           A                          D
From Death Valley to the wide Pacific shores
            C
Won't be no saints come marching in
          G             C
No cowboy stars or clergymen
               Em                                   C
Where will you run when that wind howls 'neath your door?
          Em        D              Em    C
When that Santa Ana Wind begins to roar
          G         D              G
When that Santa Ana Wind begins to roar