{"id":420,"date":"2021-05-10T03:37:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T03:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=420"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:28:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:28:49","slug":"hotel-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/hotel-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotel California"},"content":{"rendered":"

by the eagles
\nCHORD PLAYER<\/span><\/strong><\/a> – I think Bill does this in C<\/p>\n

[Intro]\r\n<\/span>Am<\/span>   E7<\/span>   G<\/span>   D<\/span>   F<\/span>   C<\/span>   Dm<\/span>   E7<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Am<\/span>   E7<\/span>   G<\/span>   D<\/span>   F<\/span>   C<\/span>   Dm<\/span>   E7<\/span> <\/span>\r\n[Verse] - - - <\/span><\/span>[Am]  On a dark desert highway, [E7] cool wind in my hair - - - <\/span><\/span>[G]  Warm smell of colitas [D] rising up through the air - - - <\/span><\/span>[F]  Up ahead in the distance, [C] I saw a shimmering light - - - <\/span><\/span>[Dm]    My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim - - - <\/span><\/span>[E7]   I had to stop for the night\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n - - - [Am]   There she stood in the doorway; [E7]  I heard the mission bell - - - <\/span><\/span>[G]   And I was thinking to myself - - - <\/span><\/span>This could be  [D] heaven or this could be hell - - - <\/span><\/span>[F]   Then she lit up a candle,  [C] and she showed me the way - - - <\/span><\/span>[Dm]    There were voices down the corridor, - - - <\/span><\/span>[E7]   I thought I heard them say...\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n{ CHORUS } - - - <\/span><\/span>[F]   Welcome to the Hotel  [C] California. - - - <\/span><\/span>Such a  [E7] lovely place, (such a lovely place), such a [Am] lovely face - - - <\/span><\/span>[F] Plenty of room at the Hotel  [C] California - - - <\/span><\/span>Any  [Dm]  time of year, (any time of year) You can  [E7] find it here\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/span> \r\n[Verse]<\/span> - - - <\/span>[Am]  Her mind is Tiffany-twisted,  [E7] She got the Mercedes Benz - - -<\/span><\/span> [G] She got a lot of pretty pretty boys  [D]   she calls friends - - - <\/span><\/span>[F]   How they danced in the courtyard,  [C] sweet summer sweat - - - <\/span><\/span>[Dm]  Some dance to remember,  [E7] some dance to forget\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n - - - [Am]   So I called up the captain;  [E7] Please bring me my wine (he said) - - - <\/span><\/span>[G]  We haven't had that spirit here since  [D] 1969 - - - <\/span><\/span>[F]   and still those voices are calling from  [C] far away - - - <\/span><\/span>[Dm]    Wake you up in the middle of the night - - - <\/span><\/span>[E7]   Just to hear them say...\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n{ CHORUS } - - - <\/span><\/span>[F]  Welcome to the Hotel  [C] California. - - - <\/span><\/span>Such a  [E7] lovely place, (such a lovely place), such a [Am] lovely face - - - <\/span><\/span>[F] They're livin' it up at the Hotel  [C] California - - - <\/span><\/span>What a  [D] nice surprise, (what a nice surprise) Bring your  [E7] alibis\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/span> \r\n[Verse] - - - <\/span><\/span>[Am]   Mirrors on the ceiling;  [E7]  the pink champagne on ice (and she said) - - - <\/span><\/span>[G]   We are all just prisoners here,  [D] of our own device - - - <\/span><\/span>[F]   and in the master's chambers, they  [C] gathered for the feast - - - <\/span><\/span>[Dm]  They stab it with their steely knives but they - - - <\/span><\/span>[E7]  just can't kill the beast\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n - - - [Am]   Last thing I remember,  [E7] I was running for the door - - - <\/span><\/span>[G]   I had to find the passage back to the  [D] place I was before - - - <\/span><\/span>[F]   \"Relax\" said the night man; we are [C] programmed to receive - - - <\/span><\/span>[Dm]  You can check out any time you like - - - <\/span><\/span>[E7]  But you can never leave...\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n[Outro Solo]\r\n<\/span>Am<\/span>   E7<\/span>   G<\/span>   D<\/span>   F<\/span>   C<\/span>   Dm<\/span>   E7<\/span>  \r\nAm  <\/span> E7  <\/span> G  <\/span> D<\/span>   F<\/span>   C<\/span>   Dm<\/span>   E7<\/span>\r\nAm<\/span>   E7<\/span>   G  <\/span> D  <\/span> F<\/span>   C<\/span>   Dm<\/span>   E7<\/span>\r\n<\/span>Three cha cha cha strum on Am to end song\r\n<\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
by the eagles CHORD PLAYER – I think Bill does this in C [Intro] Am E7 G D F C Dm E7 Am E7 G D F C Dm E7 [Verse] – – – [Am] On a dark desert highway, [E7] cool wind in my hair – – – [G] … CLICK TO VIEW SONGHotel California<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,95,133,126,265,70,116,117,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perflive","category-animals","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-eagles","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-power-outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30153,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/30153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}