On my way to sunny California 

On my way to spend another sunny day 



Water, water get yourself in the cool, clear, water 

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 

Take your mind away 



Have you ever been south of Monterey 

Barrancas carve the coast line and the chaparral flows to the sea 

'Neath waves of golden sunshine 

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 

Water, water, cool cascades of clear, clear water 

The sun dance final scene sets the hills ablaze. 

Horizon edges quick up the mountain's way. 



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 get water get yourself in that 

Get yourself in that get yourself in that cool, clear, 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 

Take your mind away 

Take your mind away 



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