Creeque Alley

John and Michy were getting kind of itchy
Just to leave the folk music behind
Zol and Denny working for a penny
Trying to get a fish on the line
In a coffee house Sebastian sat
And after every number they passed the hat
McGuinn and McGuire just a getting higher in LA
You know where that's at
And no one's getting 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
McGuinn and McGuire still a getting higher LA
You know where that's at
And no one's getting fat except Mama Cass

When Cass was Sophmore, planned to go to Swarthmore
But she changed her mind one day
Standing on the turn pike, thumb out to hitch hike
Saying "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 aiming at
And no one's getting fat except Mama Cass

The Mugwumps, high jumps, slow 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 getting very tuneful
McGuinn and McGuire just a catchin fire
In LA you know where that's at
And everybody's getting fat except Mama Cass

Broke, busted, disgusted, agents can't be trusted
And Michy wants to go to the sea
Cass can't make it, she said we'd have to faie it
We knew she'd come eventually
Greasing on the 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 Dreaming is becoming a reality
Becoming a reality

John Phillips and Michelle Phillips

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