Chords: Hopefully it's plain the a lower case "m" after the chord name means
minor.
E minor can be played for Em7. It's a piano tune and Al has more fingers
that I have strings, but I think there's a 7th in there somewhere.

Verse type 1
[C]Sergi[Em7]o, [D]came to Cali[F]fornia
In the [C]days after the [Em7]war
[D]So long a[F]go
[C]Bought some [Em7]land, [D]thought to plant a [F] vineyard
Like the [C]one he used to [Em7] know
[D]So long ag[F]o

Verse type 2
[Dm]The sleepy [G] valley was a [C]land of farms and [F]horses
[Dm]He brought his [G]family to the [C]house
That he [Am]built all al[Dm]one
He drove the [G]tractor fixed the [C]sprinklers
Loaded [F]boxes
Sold his[Dm] wine from a van
His [Fm]reputation soon began to[C] grow

The instrumental break in the middle keeps
the same structure as those two verses but
with a key change up to A, so it's a straight transposition
of all of the above into the key of A. It's the above shapes with
a capo on the 9th fret, if you like. So it's kind of like this:

A, C#m7, B, D in type 1
Bm, E, A, F#m in type 2 .
But the final Bm before the verse goes to Dm to prepare for
the key change back to C for the final verse lyrics etc

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