John and Michie

Were gettin' kind of itchy

Just to leave the

folk music behind

Zol and Denny

Workin' for a penny

Tryin' to get a

fish on the line

In a coffee house

Sebastian sat

And after every number

they passed the hat

McGuin and McGuire

just a gettin' higher

In L.A. you know

where that's at

And no one's gettin'

fat except Mama Cass

Zolly said "Denny

You know

there aren't many

Who can sing a song

the way that you do

Let's go south"

Denny said "Zolly

Golly don't you think

that I wish I could

play guitar like you"

Zol Denny and Sebastian

sat (At the Night Owl)

And after every number

they passed the hat

McGuin and McGuire

still a getting' higher

In L.A. you know

where that's at

And no one's gettin'

fat except Mama Cass

When Cass

was a sophomore

Planned to

go to Swathmore

But she changed

her mind one day

Standin' on the turnpike

Thumb out to hitchhike

Take her to

New York right away

When Denny met Cass

he gave her love bumps

Called John and Zol and

that was the "Mugwumps"

McGuin and McGuire

couldn't get no higher

But that's what

they were aimin' at

And no one's gettin'

fat except Mama Cass

Mugwumps high jumps

Low slumps big bumps

Don't you work as

hard as you play

Make up break up

Everything is shake up

Guess it had

to be that way

Sebastian and Zol

formed the "Spoonful"

Michelle John and

Denny gettin' very tuneful

McGuin and McGuire

just catchin' fire

In L.A. you know

where that's at

And everybody's gettin'

fat except Mama Cass

Broke busted disgusted

Agents can't be trusted

And Michie wants

to go to the sea

Cass can't make it

She says we'll have to

fake it We knew

she's come eventually

Greasin' an American

Express card Can

slow rent but keepin'

out the heat's hard

Duffy's good vibration

and our imaginations

Can't go on indefinitely

And "California Dreamin'"

is becoming a reality