{"id":80,"date":"2021-05-10T01:32:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T01:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=80"},"modified":"2026-02-16T21:52:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:52:51","slug":"all-the-gold-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/all-the-gold-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"All the Gold in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">by Gatlin Brothers &#8211; Key of [four choices] \u00a0 <input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69ea4d082379f9042396833' value='69ea4d082379f9042396833'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69ea4d082379f9042396833' value='Show More'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69ea4d082379f9042396833' value='Show Less'><button id='bg-showmore-action-69ea4d082379f9042396833' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">Show More<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69ea4d082379f9042396833' ><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">This song was written while Larry was in a traffic jam in Los Angeles; the song goes on to warn the listener that all the gold in the state &#8220;is in a bank in the middle of Beverly Hills in somebody else&#8217;s name&#8221; and that attempting to make it big in California carries a risk of failure that could personally devastate one&#8217;s resolve. On January 19, 1985, Larry Gatlin &amp; the Gatlin Brothers Band sang the song at the nationally televised 50th Presidential Inaugural Gala, the day before the second inauguration of Ronald Reagan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p>D G<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">[CHORUS<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">Trying to be a hero, winding up a [G] zero,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">Can [D] scar a man forever, right down to your [A] soul,<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\"> Living on the [D] spotlight, can kill a man [G] outright,<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\"> Cause [D] everything that [A] glitters is not [D] gold,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">{ CHORUS } All the gold in Cali-[G]-fornia is in a [D] bank in the middle of<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\"> Beverly Hills, in somebody else&#8217;s [A] name.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">So if you&#8217;re [D] dreamin&#8217; about Cali-[G]-fornia, i<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">t don&#8217;t [D] matter at all where you played before, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">Cali-[D]-fornia&#8217;s a brand new [G] game.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; color: #ff0000;\">[ modulate <\/span><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; color: #ff0000;\">]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\">{ CHORUS } All the gold in Cali-[A]-fornia is in a [E] bank in the middle of Beverly Hills, in somebody else&#8217;s [B] name.\u00a0\u00a0 So if you&#8217;re [E] dreamin&#8217; about Cali-[A]-fornia, it don&#8217;t [E] matter at all where you played before, Cali-[E]-fornia&#8217;s a brand new [A] game<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Gatlin Brothers &#8211; Key of [four choices] \u00a0 D G [CHORUS] Trying to be a hero, winding up a [G] zero, Can [D] scar a man forever, right down to your [A] soul, Living on the [D] spotlight, can kill a man [G] outright, Cause [D] everything that [A] &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/all-the-gold-in-california\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">All the Gold in 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":[225,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gatlin-brothers","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","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=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29888,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/29888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}