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Steinbeck's Eden is dry and dusty
The wind rose groan of greener days
The well pump handle is long since rusty
The windfall rain and valley haze
So just keep going wild honey
Somewhere northward of Monterey
Up above the fog its sunny
One more wonderful summer day
Mine is a paradise made for one
There used to be more but that is now gone
Where you went when you went no one knows
I treasure the lingering smell of your clothes
Though I love the fields of wild flowers
Never once did I carry them away
To lay on your grave in the soft early hours
Cuz that's not the California way
So I went back to that place and I swam into the riptide
It beckoned me in and I could not stay away
It spared me my life though I begged it to take me
But that's not the California way
Califronia way