(folksy guitar music)
♪ John and Mitchy were
gettin' kind of itchy ♪
♪ Just to leave the
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 ♪
♪ Zally said Denny, you
know there aren't many ♪
♪ Who can sing a song the way
that you do, let's go south ♪
♪ Denny said Zally, golly,
don't you think that I wish ♪
♪ I could play guitar like you 
♪ Zal, 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 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 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, whoa ♪
♪ 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 ♪
♪ It'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 ♪
♪ Becomin' a reality 
(audience applauding)
