The Beach Boys – California Saga - California (Guitar Live)

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On my way to sunny Cal-i-forn-i-a,

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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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keep your mind away, take your mind away...

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Have you ever been south of Monterey?

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Barrancas carve the coastline.

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And the chaparral flows to the sea,

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'neath waves of golden sunshine.(on my way)

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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.(on my way)

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water, water, get yourself in that cool clear water,

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the sundance final scene sets the hills ablaze.

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Horizon edges quick up the mountain's way,

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up the mountain's way...up the mountain's way.

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And 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,

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in his "Travellin's with Charlie"?

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and have you ever walked down through the sycamores,

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where the farmhouse used to be?

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There the Monarch's autumn journey ends,

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on a windswept Cypress tree.

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water, water, get yourself in that cool clear water,

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the sun shines brightly down on Penny's Place,

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Keep yourself in that water...

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the air's so clean just takes your mind away,

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takes your mind away, takes your mind away...

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and have you ever been to a festival,

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the Big Sur congregation?

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Where Country Joe will do his show,

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and he'll sing about liberty.

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and the people there, in the open air,

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are one big family.

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Yeah, the people there, love to sing and share

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their newfound liberty.