She's a pistol packin' mama and a bleach blond surfer queen
A highfalutin' filly and an adolescent's fling
She was born at sutter's mill and killed up on the silver screen
She opens up her golden gate and offers us a dream
She's a powder snow bunny and a painted desert rat
An avocado model in a boysenberry hat
She's our buffed and sprangled banner, she's our sedentary fat
She's hungry cold and homeless, and she's luxury's lap
She's the golden girl of the golden west
A lipo-sucking diva with a saline chest
She's the golden girl of the golden west
A fashion island floozy in a skin tight dress
She's the golden girl...
One man's blessing and another man's curse
She's an economic engine with her gears thrown in reverse
She's a double beef burger called 'the double patty hearse'
She's a napa valley vineyard selling toast and liver worse
She's a corporation raider on the sports bar beat
A giant dodging forty-niner with two athletes feet
She's a warrior and an angel and a ram in heat
She's a drunken clipper captain with a silicon leak
She's a bleeding heart madonna with a big electric chair
An earth shaking quaker with a fundamental flair
There's a method to her madness and a charismatic air
An orthodoxly logic in that presbytery stare
So come all you huddled masses, all you yo-yosimite sams
Make a wish and pitch a penny off the mighty hoover dam
Yeah and leave it all to beaver and start packin' up the van
Take the California aqueduct on down to disneyland