California Shoeshine Boys

(album: More Than A New Discovery - 1967)

California shoeshine boys, counting up their dimes
Counting up the girls they've known, and counting up the times...
I got heartache, but I got news:
California shoeshine boys, you can shine my shoes!

California shoeshine boys never really care
Only for that California shoeshine in their hair...
I got heartache, but I got news:
California shoeshine boys, you can shine my shoes!

California sunshine boys, rapping ten feet tall
John can make sweet Cindy cry, but Joe can make her crawl...
I got heartache, said I've got heartache
I got miles of heartache, and I've got heartache
I got walls of heartarche...
Let me go... let me go...
Let me go... let me ten hundred walls of heartache...
Let me go ten hundred walls of heartache...
Let me go... Let me go...
Let me go...

I got heartache, but I got news:
California sunshine boys, yeah... yeah, yeah...

California shoeshine boys, counting up their dimes
Counting up the girls they've known, and counting up the times...
I got heartache, but I got news, baby:
California shoeshine boys, you can shine my shoes!

California shoeshine boys, yeah...
California shoeshine boys, yeah...
California shoeshine boys, California shoeshine boys
California sunshine boys...
Yeah, uh-huh!