| Busted our conga, rusted out Dodge,
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| California dreamin' of an international hodgepodge.
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| An old roach in the ashtray, a closed sidewalk cafe,
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| A saxophone in pieces, a moth-eaten beret.
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| A little bird told me, I heard it on the wind,
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| All of them old beatniks, ah they’re gonna rise again.
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| Daddy-o and mommy-o, kiddie-o and me,
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| To a beat cool city landscape in the key of E.
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| Where all our styles of poetry will leap right off the page,
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| And ride upon a hi-igh lonesome riff across the stage.
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| Our lovers will meet us mysteriously in rainy night hotels,
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| And we’ll all be always traveling, sometimes under spells.
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| Oh praise the battered sunflower, grows in the Kwik Trip lot,
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| Ah, we’ll all get naked in little pairs, and we’ll get so loose and so hot.
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| We’ll troop across the country; |
| bring joy to the Midwest,
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| Redesign our houses to the shape of a gentle breast.
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| And we’ll laugh away the government; |
| we’ll laugh away the years,
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| When we get tired of laughing away, ah, we’ll taste each other’s tears.
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| We’ll taste the cool spring water and learn where it can be found,
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| We’ll take a little taste of everything, and we’ll hand the knowledge down.
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| A little bird told me, I heard it on the wind,
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| All of them old beatniks, ah they’re gonna rise again.
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| Daddy-o and mommy-o, kiddie-o and me,
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| To a beat cool city landscape in the key of ecstasy. |