Artist: Marc Ensey

Words and Music: Jim Olson

Publisher: Hot Rain Publishing BMI

Full Song Lyrics

Verse 1:

There was a golden state in the forty-eight beneath the western skies

Where palm trees grew and life began anew there was magic in our eyes

Ancomte was queen of the beach blanket scene and the Beach Boys ruled the charts

Americans teens all her sons and daughters had California dreaming in their hearts

It was the home of Bogie, The Gipper, and the Duke, Disney was building a dream

Before the gangs and the dopers claimed Hollywood and Vine you could still breath the air in LA

Chorus:

(It was a golden land under a golden sky before California Lost its Shine  X 5)

I Want to know

Where did the good times go

This land of sun and gold

A wonder for all time

Then California lost its shine

 Verse 3:

We had fifty seven Chevy's and 409's burger joint queens and surfer guys   

Walking barefoot on the boardwalk at Santa Cruz we would live forever and never lose

Endless summers, sand between your toes listing to the band playing rock and roll

A girl could be a star on the silver screen and never take off her shirt

 Chorus:

(It was a golden land under a golden sky before California Lost its Shine X 3)

I Want to know

Where did the good times go

Before California lost its shine

(It was a golden land under a golden sky before California Lost its Shine X 3)

I Want to know

Where did the good times go

Before California lost its shine

(It was a golden land under a golden sky before California Lost its Shine X 3)

I Want to know

Where did the good times go

Before California lost its shine