California Saga Songtext
von Brian Wilson

On my way to sunny Californi-a
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 air's so clean that it just takes your mind away
Takes your mind away (Yeah)
Takes 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

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 (Oh, yeah)


Water, (Water), water, (Water)
Cool cascades of clear, clear water
And the sun dance final scene sets the hills ablaze
Horizon edges quick up the mountain's way
Up the mountain′s way (Yeah)
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 by the sycamores
Where the farmhouse used to be?
There the monarch′s autumn journey ends
On a windswept cyprus tree

Water, (Water), water, (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 that it just takes your mind away
Takes your mind away (Yeah)
Takes 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
The new found liberty