Testo Creeq Alley

John and Mitchie 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'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



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'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 Swarthmore

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 Zol 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 Zol 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

Di-di-di-dit dit dit di-di-di-dit, who-o-oa



**Flute**



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



You're easin' on American Express card

Tent's 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