California

On my way to sunny Californ-i-a

On my way to spend another sunny day

Water, water

Get yourself in the cool, clear water

The sun shines brightly down on Penny's place

(The sun shines brightly down on the bay)

The air's so clean it'll just take your mind away

(A- take your mind away, take your mind away)

Have you ever been south of Monterey, barrancas carve the coast line

And the chaparral flows to the sea 'neath waves of golden sunshine

And have you ever been north of Morro Bay, the south coast plows the sea

And the people there are of the breed, they don't need electricity

Water, water

(Get yourself in that)

Cool cascades of clear, clear water

(Get yourself in that, get yourself in that water)

The sun dance final scene sets the hills ablaze

(Get yourself in that water)

Horizon edges quick up the mountain's way

(Up the mountain’s way, up the mountain’s way)

Have you ever been down Salinas way where Steinbeck found the valley

And he wrote about it the way it was in his travelin's with Charley

And have you ever walked down through the sycamores where the farmhouse used to be

There the monarch's autumn journey ends on a windswept cyprus tree

Water, water

(Get, get yourself in that)

Get yourself in that cool, clear, water

(Get yourself in that, get yourself in that water)

The sun shines brightly down on Penny's place

(Get yourself in that water)

The air's so clean that it just takes your mind away

(Takes your mind away, takes your mind away)

Have you ever been to a festival, the Big Sur congregation

Where Country Joe will do his show and he'd sing about liberty

And the people there in the open air are one big family

Yeah, the people there love to sing and share their new found liberty