(John Phillips and Michelle Gilliam)
|
John and Mitchie were gettin' kind of itchy
|
Just to leave the folk music behind;
|
Zal 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'd pass the hat.
|
McGuinn and McGuire just a-gettin' higher in L.A.,
|
You know where that's at.
|
And no one's gettin' fat except Mama Cass.Zallie said, "Denny, you know there aren't many
|
Who can sing a song the way that you do; let's go south."
|
Denny said, Zallie, golly, don't you think that I wish
|
I could play guitar like you."
|
Zal, Denny, and Sebastian sat (at the Night Owl)
|
And after every number they'd pass the hat.
|
McGuinn and McGuire still a-gettin 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 me to New York right away."
|
When Denny met Cass he gave her love bumps;
|
Called John and Zal and that was the Mugwumps.
|
McGuinn 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 Zal formed the 'Spoonful;
|
Michelle, John, and Denny gettin' very tuneful.
|
McGuinn and McGuire just a-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 Mitchie wants to go to the sea.
|
Cass can't make it; she says we'll have to fake it -
|
We knew she'd come eventually.
|
Greasin' on American Express cards;
|
Tents low rent, but keeping out the heat's hard.
|
Duffy's good vibrations and our imaginations
|
Can't go on indefinitely.
|
And California dreamin' is becomin' a reality...
|
|
-----------------
|
Creeque Alley
|
| The Mamas & The Papas |
