C
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,
     F                                    C
the sun shines brightly down on Penny's Place,
     C
the sun shines brightly down on the bay.
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the air's so clean it'll just take your mind away,
                 G                    F
keep your mind away, take your mind away...

[Verse]
          C
Have you ever been south of Monterey?
                      F
Barrancas carve the coastline.
          G
And the chaparral flows to the sea,
                        C
'neath waves of golden sunshine.(on my way)

[Verse]
              C
And have you ever been north of Morro Bay,
                           F
the south coast plows the sea,
          G
and the people there are of the breed,
                          C
they don't need electricity.(on my way)

[Chorus]

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water, water, get yourself in that cool clear water,
     F                                     C
the sundance final scene sets the hills ablaze.
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Horizon edges quick up the mountain's way,
                   G                       F
up the mountain's way...up the mountain's way.

[Verse]
              C
And have you ever been down Salinas way,
                           F
where Steinbeck found the valley,
         G
and he wrote about it the way it was,
                           C
in his "Travellin's with Charlie"?

[Verse]
              C
and have you ever walked down through the sycamores,
                            F
where the farmhouse used to be?
           G
There the Monarch's autumn journey ends,
                         C
on a windswept Cypress tree.

[Chorus]

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water, water, get yourself in that cool clear water,
     F                                    C
the sun shines brightly down on Penny's Place,
  C
Keep yourself in that water...
     F                                   C
the air's so clean just takes your mind away,
                  G                     F
takes your mind away, takes your mind away...

[Verse]
              C
and have you ever been to a festival,
                   F
the Big Sur congregation?
        G
Where Country Joe will do his show,
                           C
and he'll sing about liberty.

[Outro]
          G
and the people there, in the open air,
                 C
are one big family.
            G
Yeah, the people there, love to sing and share
                     C  G7 C
their newfound liberty.