Released: January 8, 1973
Songwriter: Al Jardine
Producer: The Beach Boys
[Intro - Brian Wilson]
On my way to sunny California
On my way to spend another sunny day
[Chorus]
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)
[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus 2]
Water, water
Cool cascades of clear, clear water
The sun dance final scene sets the hills ablaze
(Get yourself in that water)
Horizon edges quick up the mountain's way
(Up the mountain's way, up the mountain's way)
[Verse 2]
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
[Chorus]
Water, water (Get, get yourself in that)
Get yourself in that cool, clear, water
(Get yourself in that, 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
(Take your mind away, take your mind away)
[Verse 3]
Have you ever been to a festival
The Big Sur congregation?
Where Country Joe will do his show
And he'll sing about liberty
And the people there in the open air are one big family
Yeah, the people there love to sing and share
Their new found liberty
On my way to sunny California
On my way to spend another sunny day
[Chorus]
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)
[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus 2]
Water, water
Cool cascades of clear, clear water
The sun dance final scene sets the hills ablaze
(Get yourself in that water)
Horizon edges quick up the mountain's way
(Up the mountain's way, up the mountain's way)
[Verse 2]
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
[Chorus]
Water, water (Get, get yourself in that)
Get yourself in that cool, clear, water
(Get yourself in that, 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
(Take your mind away, take your mind away)
[Verse 3]
Have you ever been to a festival
The Big Sur congregation?
Where Country Joe will do his show
And he'll sing about liberty
And the people there in the open air are one big family
Yeah, the people there love to sing and share
Their new found liberty
Holland
- Sail On, Sailor
- I’m the Pied Piper - Instrumental
- Mt. Vernon and Fairway (Theme)
- I’m the Pied Piper
- We Got Love
- Radio King Dom
- Magic Transistor Radio
- Better Get Back In Bed
- Funky Pretty
- Only With You
- Leaving This Town
- The Trader
- California Saga (California)
- California Saga (The Beaks Of Eagles)
- California Saga (Big Sur)
- Steamboat
- Hard Times
- Holland (1973)
- Surfin’ USA
- God Only Knows
- Wouldn’t It Be Nice
- Good Vibrations
- Kokomo
- Sloop John B
- California Girls
- I Get Around
- Surf’s Up
- Little Deuce Coupe
- Don’t Worry Baby
- In My Room
- I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times
- Surfin’ Safari
- You Still Believe in Me
- Forever
- That’s Not Me
- Fun, Fun, Fun
- Heroes and Villains
- Caroline, No
- 409
- Don’t Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)
- I Know There’s an Answer
- Barbara Ann