Californ-i-a Lyrics

Well Californ-i-a

Is how she says California

Cape Town

Is how I say Cape Town

She has a Hollywood twang

She picked it up from the movies

I know some neighbourhood slang

I picked it up in school

Oh it's so very cool and exotic

So very cool and yeah

She says her father's the man

A gun slinger if you've seen one

He has a lifetime ban

From five American states

He drives a big black sedan

He takes it to and from the workplace

An All-American man

With All-American taste

Oh it's so very cool and

So cool and

So cool and yeah

Ba ba ba ba ba ba

Ba ba ba ba ba

Ba ba ba ba ba ba

Ba ba ba ba ba

Well like a darter out there

Sunning itself on a rock

She's got her arms outstretched

Like a pack-a-day smoker

Starting and trying to stop

I get taken in

Like a martyr out there

Dying for some kind of cause

She's got her arms outstretched

So wide, so wide

And Californ-i-a

Is how she says California

Nieu-Bethesda

Is how I say Nieu-Bethesda

She has a Hollywood twang

She picked it up from the movies

I know some neighbourhood slang

I know some neighbourhood slang

I know some neighbourhood slang