If
you have sunshine an d beaches,
how can that be so hard?
And maybe oranges an d grapefruit
grow ing in your own backyard.
If you have mountains, and the ocean,
and a great big smiling sky
There's very little that is blue here,
so the blues pass
Los
Angeles by
Everybody has a barbecue,
everybody's going swimming too
With that kind of living,
how can you be blue?
So the blues pass
Los
Angeles by
Oh, you can go to a
mountain and ski down the side
Go to a beach and take a surfboard ride
The city of the angels
has a lot of pride
But the blues have
passed it by
And oh, the folks are nice in
this tropical clime
Although they talk about the
weather lot s of the time
They call it unusual if the rain comes down
They don't believe in
blues in this old town
You can go to the desert
in an hour or two
Where the sun and the sand
are so good for you
Where living's that easy,
how can you be blue?
Yes, the blues have passed it by
Oh, you can live in the valley
where the grass is green
Oh, you can live on a hill
with a view to be seen
The people do say
that on a real clear day
You can see
Catalina, though it's pretty far
away
Oh, you can watch the
Rams or
Angels or the
Dodgers play
On a sunny
California smog -free day
If the boys are winning,
it's easier to say that the
Blues passed
Los
Angeles by.
They went right on by, took a look at that sky,
and they passed it by.