301 Annotated TLG Songs

Baby let’s go down to Santa Cruz
Got nothing to gain so much to lose
The valley is so hot
We’ve been caught all summer here
No mistake
We must escape
Santa Cruz

There’s a beach I know called Bonny Doon
We don’t have to wear our swimmin suits
Jump into the ocean without a stitch of clothin
Skinny dippin in the sea of Bonny Doon

Let’s go down to Santa Cruz
We can use my grandmas campervan
We will drive that old machine into the sand
If we should get it stuck there
I won’t care
I’m in a rut here
I need to get on down to Santa Cruz
Let’s go down to Santa Cruz

The highway night
Take our time
Over skylight

Through them redwood ruins
We’ll roll right through them to santa cruz

We can watch the sunset in the west
Or the rising moon if we should stay
We’ll light a fire
Drink some wine
Write messages no one will find
In bottles we cork will be cast away
I wouldn’t want it any other way.

Baby let’s go down
Baby let’s go down
Baby let’s go down
Baby let’s go down to Santa Cruz

There is so often
There is feel in the atmosphere
Just a reminder
We were all children once

Even when you can’t stand to look
It is impossible to miss
We once played there
By the swings and the rusty chairs
Why do we have to grow up?
I can still see us play
Back in the shade
Of the cottonwood tree
In the summer back home in LA

We are a waterfall
And we crash below
But eventually
We flow to sea

Sand would fill our shoes
And we wouldn’t bother
Instead we would let it slip
From one toe over the other
And the pavement would scrape
When we fell to our knees
And the blood formed a line
It looked just like limbs on a tree
Why do we have to grow up
I can still see us play

Back in the shade
Of the cottonwood tree
In the summer back home in LA

We are a waterfall
We crash below
But eventually we flow to sea