Tom: B5

Intro: B5  (4x)

 B5
John and Mitchie were gettin' kind of itchy
 B5
Just to leave the folk music behind
E5
Zal and Denny workin' for a penny
 B5
Tryin' to get a fish on the line
      F#5
In a coffee house Sebastian sat
     E5
And after every number they'd pass the hat
    B5
McGuinn and McGuire just a-gettin' higher
                               E5
In L.A., you know where that's at
                     D5               B5
And no one's gettin' fat except Mama Cass
 B5
Zally said "Denny, you know there aren't many
 B5
Who can sing a song the way that you do, let's go south"
E5
Denny said "Zally, golly, don't you think that I wish
 B5
I could play guitar like you"
      F#5
Zal, Denny and Sebastian sat (at the Night Owl)
     E5
And after every number they'd pass the hat
 B5
McGuinn and McGuire still a-gettin higher
                              E5
In L.A., you know where that's at
                   D5               B5
And no one's gettin' fat except Mama Cass
 B5
When Cass was a sophomore, planned to go to Swarthmore
 B5
But she changed her mind one day
E5
Standin' on the turnpike, thumb out to hitchhike
 B5
"Take me to New York right away"
      F#5
When Denny met Cass he gave her love bumps
      E5
Called John and Zal and that was the Mugwumps
 B5
McGuinn and McGuire couldn't get no higher
                               E5
But that's what they were aimin' at
                     D5               B5
And no one's gettin' fat except Mama Cass
 B5
Mugwumps, high jumps, slow slumps, big bumps
 B5
Don't you work as hard as you play
E5
Make up, break up, everything is shake up
 B5
Guess it had to be that way
      F#5
Sebastian and Zal formed the Spoonful
E5
Michelle, John, and Denny gettin' very tuneful
 B5
McGuinn and McGuire just a-catchin' fire
                             E5
In L.A., you know where that's at
                     D5               B5
And everybody's gettin' fat except Mama Cass

**Instrumental Break:  Flute Solo Over Verse Chords
 B5
Broke, busted, disgusted, agents can't be trusted
 B5
And Mitchie wants to go to the sea
E5
Cass can't make it, she says we'll have to fake it
 B5
We knew she'd come eventually
      F#5
Greasin' on American Express cards
      E5
Tent's low rent, but keeping out the heat's hard
 B5
Duffy's good vibrations and our imaginations
                    E5
Can't go on indefinitely
                     D5               B5
And California dreamin' is becomin' a reality

Coda - Flute Solo:  
E5  D5   B5  E5   D5   B5