Creeque Alley

John and Mitchy were gettin' kind of itchy

Just to leave their 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

Zal, he said, "Denny

You know there aren't many

Who can sing a song the way that you do

Let's go south"

Danny said, "Zally

Golly! Don't you think that I wish

I could play guitar like you"

Zal, Danny 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 her to New York right away

When Danny 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 Danny 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 Mitchy 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

Tent's low rent, but keepin' out the heat's hard

Duffy's good vibrations and our imaginations

Can't go on indefinitely

And California dreamin' is becomin' a reality