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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.
[Chorus]
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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)
[Verse]
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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)
[Chorus]
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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.
[Verse]
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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"?
[Verse]
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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.
[Chorus]
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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...
[Verse]
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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.
[Outro]
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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.
