Mamas And The Papas - Creeque Alley bass tab

Subject: Re: REQ: Creeque Alley by the Mamas and the Papas

Creeque Alley John Phillips, Michelle Gilliam 1967

C (bass-strum: repeat C - G - C - G- Bb- C throughout)

John and Mitchie were gettin' kinda itchie

just to leave the folk music behind

F7

Zal and Denny workin' for a penny

C

tryin' to get a fish on the line

G7

In a coffee house Sebastian sat

F7

and after every number they passed the hat

C

McGuinn and McGuire just are gettin' higher

F7

in L.A. you know where that's at

Eb C

And no one's getting fat except Mama Cass.

Zallie said 'Denny, you know there aren't many

who can sing a song the way that you do' (Let's go South)

Denny said 'Zallie, golly, don't you think that I wish

I could play guitar like you'

Zal, Denny and Sebastian sat (at the Night Owl)

And after every number they passed the hat

McGuinn and McGuire just are gettin' higher

in L.A. you know where that's at

And no one's getting fat except Mama Cass.

When Cass was a Sophomore, planned to go to Swarthmore,

But she changed her mind one day

Standign on the turnpike, thumb out to hitchhike,

Take her to New York right away

When Denny met Cass he gave her love bumps

Call John and Zal, and that was the Mugwumps

McGuinn and McGuire couldn't get no higher

but that's what they were aiming at

And no one's getting fat except Mama Cass.

Mugwumps, hi-jumps, low slumps, big bumps,

don't you work as hard as you play

Drink-up, break-up, everything is shake-up

Guess it had to be that way

Sebastian and Zal formed the Spoonful

Michelle, John and Denny gettin' very tuneful

McGuinn and McGuire just are catchin' fire

in L.A. you know where that's at

And everybody's gettin' fast except Mama Cass.

Broke, busted, disgusted, agents can't be trusted,

and Mitchie wants to go to the sea

Cass can't make it, she says we'll have to fake it

We knew she'd come eventually

Greasin' on American Express card

Tents, low rents, and keepin' out the heat's hard

Duffy's good vibrations, and our imaginations,

can't go on indefinitely

And California Dreaming is becoming a reality.