OK, I'm doing this from memory, picked it all up by ear so there might be a mistake or two, but here are lyrics and chords for the song.
VERSE 1
A
Stepped out in the pouring rain,
D
Left out on the evening train,
A
I was just a little boy, thinking bout the memory,
E
Father that you used to be.
A
San Jose, It's a sun-drenched town,
D
Your old truck with the windows rolled down,
A
Jerry Jeff ridin' high on the radio,
E
I want to know why you had to go?
BRIDGE
D
Took a plane to California, yeah,
A
Endless summer, 1970's,
A
Telling you that you're the man,
E
That taught me how to sing.
Bm D
Why did you go?
A
And leave me so young?
A E
So young, so young?
CHORUS
B
Tell me things that I want to know,
E
Now I'm a man with a family of my own,
A
Why'd you go and leave me in the cold,
E A
With the face in the mirror of the man I didn't know.
B
In the desert where the warm wind blows,
E
Where'd you go when I was so alone,
A
These California nights can be so cold,
E A
I want to know the man I didn't know.
VERSE 2
A
Now I'm the one with the radio song,
D
A wife and kids to tell me what's wrong,
A
I need the man in my life who made me who I am,
E
I don't want to lose you again.
REPEAT: Bridge, Chorus,--Solo--,Chorus
