The Beach Boys - California Saga: California (Single Version) Lyrics

On my way to sunny Californ-i-a
On my way to spend another sunny day

Water (clea-ar water)
Get yourself in the cool, clear, water
And 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
Take your mind away (way)
Take your mind away (ay-ay)

Have you ever been south of Monterey?
Barrancas carve the coast line
And the chaparral flows to the sea
'Neath waves of golden sunshine (on my way)

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 (on my way-ay)

Water, water (get yourself in that)
Cool cascades (get yourself in that) of clear, clear water (get yourself in that water)
The sundance final scene sets the hills ablaze (get yourself in that water)
Horizon edges quick up the mountain's way
Up the mountain's way (way)
Up the mountain's way (ay-ay)

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 yourself in that, get yourself in that)
Get yourself in the cool, clear, water (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 (way)
Takes your mind away (ay-ay)

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
One big family
Yeah, the people there love to sing and share
Their new-found liberty