| On my way to sunny California
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| On my way to spend another sunny day
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| Water, water get yourself in the cool, clear, water
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| The sun shines brightly down on Penny’s place
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| The sun shines brightly down on the bay
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| The air’s so clean it’ll just take your mind away
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| Take your mind away
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| Take your mind away
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| Have you ever been south of Monterey
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| Barrancas carve the coast line and the chaparral flows to the sea
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| 'Neath waves of golden sunshine
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| And have you ever been north of Morro Bay
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| The south coast plows the sea
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| And the people there are of the breed
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| They don’t need electricity
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| Water, water, cool cascades of clear, clear water
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| The sun dance final scene sets the hills ablaze.
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| Horizon edges quick up the mountain’s way.
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| Have you ever been down Salinas way?
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| Where Steinbeck found the valley
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| And he wrote about it the way it was in his travelin’s with Charley
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| And have you ever walked down through the sycamores
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| Where the farmhouse used to be There the monarch’s autumn journey ends
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| On a windswept cyprus tree
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| Water getwater get yourself in that
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| Get yourself in that get yourself in that cool, clear, water
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| The sun shines brightly down on Penny’s place
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| Get yourself in that water
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| The air’s so clean that it just takes your mind away
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| Take your mind away
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| Take your mind away
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| Have you ever been to a festival, the Big Sur congregation?
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| Where Country Joe will do his show
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| And he’d sing about liberty
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| And the people there in the open air, one big family.
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| Yeah the people there love to sing and share
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| Their new found liberty |