On my way to sunny California, on my way to spend another sunny day.
I don't want to go to the water room, I don't want to go to the south room, I don't want to go to the water room.
The sunshine brought me down on the bay, the sunshine brought me down on the bay.
You're so clean, it'll just take your mind away
Take your mind away, take your mind away
Have you ever been south of Monterey?
Barranca's scarred the coastline
And the chaparral flows to the sea
Neat 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
That don't need electricity
Water, get yourself a mat
Get yourself a mat
Get yourself a mat
So you can find
Water, get yourself a mat
The sea sends the hills aflame
Get yourself a mat
Horizon edges sweep up the mountains way
Have you ever been down Salinas Way?
Where Steinbeck found the valley
And he wrote about it the way it was
In his traveling
With Charlie
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 sapper's tree
Water, get yourself a mat
Get yourself a mat
The cool kids tell them that
Water, get yourself a mat

And have you ever been north of Morro Bay?
The south coast plows the sea
And have you ever been north of Morro Bay?
Have you ever been to a festival?
The Big Sur congregation
Where Country Joe will do his show
And it's been a while since we've been there but
Sing about liberty
And the people there in the open air
One big family
Yeah, the people there love to sing and share
Their newfound liberty