Hotel California Eagles Chords and Lyrics for Guitar

Intro: Bm – F# – A – E – G – D – Em – F# (2X)

[

Bm

]

On a dark desert highway,

[

F#

]

cool wind in my hair

[

A

]

Warm smell of colitas,

[

E

]

rising up through the air

[

G

]

Up ahead in the distance,

[

D

]

I saw a shimmering light

[

Em

]

My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim

[

F#

]

I had to stop for the night

[

Bm

]

There she stood in the doorway,  

[

F#

]

I heard the mission bell

[

A

]

And I was thinking to myself this could be

[

E

]

heaven or this could be hell

[

G

]

Then she lit up a candle,

[

D

]

and she showed me the way

[

Em

]

There were voices down the corridor,

[

F#

]

I thought I heard them say:

//Chorus//

[

G

]

Welcome to the Hotel Cali

[

D

]

fornia

Such a

[

F#

]

lovely place… such a

[

Bm

]

lovely face

[

G

]

Plenty of room at the Hotel Cali

[

D

]

fornia

Any

[

Em

]

time of year… you can

[

F#

]

find it here

[

Bm

]

Her mind is Tiffany twisted,

[

F#

]

she got the Mercedes bends, uh!

[

A

]

She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys

[

E

]

that she calls friends

[

G

]

How they dance in the courtyard,

[

D

]

sweet summer sweat

[

Em

]

Some dance to remember,

[

F#

]

some dance to forget

[

Bm

]

So I called up the captain,

[

F#

]

“Please bring me my wine,” he said

[

A

]

“We haven’t had that spirit here since

[

E

]

nineteen sixty-nine”

[

G

]

And still those voices are calling from

[

D

]

far away

[

Em

]

Wake you up in the middle of the night,

[

F#

]

just to hear them say

[

G

]

Welcome to the Hotel Cali

[

D

]

fornia

Such

[

F#

]

a lovely place…  such a

[

Bm

]

lovely face

[

G

]

Livin it up at the Hotel Cali

[

D

]

fornia

What a

[

Em

]

nice surprise… bring your

[

F#

]

alibis

[

Bm

]

Mirrors on the ceiling,

[

F#

]

the pink champagne on ice, and she said,

[

A

]

“We are all just prisoners here,

[

E

]

of our own device”

[

G

]

And in the master’s chambers,

[

D

]

they gathered for the feast

[

Em

]

They stab it with their steely knives, but they

[

F#

]

just can’t kill the beast

  

[

Bm

]

Last thing I remember,

[

F#

]

I was running for the door

[

A

]

I had to find the passage back to the

[

E

]

place I was before

[

G

]

“Relax” said the nightman, “We are

[

D

]

programmed to receive”

[

Em

]

“You can check out anytime you like,

[

F#

]

but you can never leave”

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