1. California, California
    Know I love you, California
    When I leave, I know you wait for me
    Cause in the sun and in the weather
    No one else has loved me better
    California you’re the place for me

    Los Angeles, Los Angeles
    My heart goes out to you and if
    I make it back I’d love to drive around
    Cause your streets are wide and dirty
    You’d have raised me in a hurry
    You’re the city with the angels, yes indeed

    San Francisco, San Francisco
    Always busy, you’re always pretty
    I can see you just across the bay
    Your red bridge over the sea 
    Keeps me safe and warm and free
    On a clear day, there’s no place I’d rather be

    In the mountains, in the mountains
    No one knows you like I do
    And summer streams are knee deep in the snow
    Just like the giving tree you have made a man of me
    Cause everyone needs someplace beautiful
    I think everyone needs someplace beautiful

    California, California
    Know I love you, California
    When I leave I know you wait for me
    Cause in the sun and in the weather
    No one else has loved me better
    California you’re the place for me

    In the valley, in the valley
    Give me life and cradle me
    The sun is setting as I drive ahead
    So keep us and sustain us
    Give us food and love and I trust
    That without you we’d all soon be dead

    In the forest, all the trees 
    You make a little child of me
    How I long to know what you have seen
    All the people who are gone 
    And all the ones who once were strong
    Oh won’t you keep their fate from claiming me

    In the oceans, in the sea
    We have seen eternity
    How can I tell when you really end
    I imagine that you lead to other worlds entirely
    Where we can save ourselves and start again
    Yes we need to save ourselves and start again

    California, California
    Know I love you, California
    When I leave I know you wait for me
    Cause in the sun and in the weather
    No one else has loved me better
    California you’re the place for me

    So nurse me like a mother
    Raise me strong just like my father
    Let me wander off, discover who I am
    I’ll have learned your deepest lessons
    Gathered up your finest blessings
    Return to California once again
    Yes, I’ll come home to California once again

    California, California
    Know I love you, California
    When I leave I know you wait for me
    Cause in the sun and in the weather
    No one else has loved me better
    California you’re the place for me 
    Yes California you’re the place for me
    California won’t you save a place for me?