Sonny took a train   Mary took a boat   Somewhere its gonna be better    Everybody needs a little hope   Ten thousand souls   Waiting on a bus and it never rolled   So it goes      No one's leavin' California   Pacific transit overload   Gold dust dreamers never warn ya'   And my guitar strums   I am the American      Gotta walkin' stick   And an old sop hat   I got dirty hands    And I got a dream to match   Got a pocket full   Of government issued cures for poverty   Yeah, oh      No one's leavin' California   Pacific transit overload   And all my friends live on the corner   And my guitar strums   I am the American      Under the street light   Down by the water   Don't worry baby    It's nothing you ever knew   If it makes you feel better   Throw down a quarter   Don't worry baby   It won't stick to your shoe      No one's leavin' California   Pacific transit overload   Gold dust dreamers never warn ya'   And my guitar strums   Yeah, my guitar strums   I am the American