Someone knockin’ sliding paper doors
 And you nod in beautiful kimono
 Got my heartbeat fly away to Seoul
 I love you!

 Oh, lord! Why were we raised up in
 Faraway other lands?

 Never met a girl like you before
 Made up my mind honeymoon to Kyoto
 There I cut my hair into the bald
 Hold on, girl!

 Oh, lord! Why were we raised up in
 Faraway other lands? 

 Sailing high with the Japanese girl
 CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’, NEVERMIND
 Sailing high with the Japanese girl
 California dreamin’ never across the world

 Someone knockin’ sliding paper doors
 And you nod in beautiful kimono
 Got my heartbeat fly away to Seoul
 I love you!

 Oh, lord! Why were we raised up in
 Faraway other lands?

 Sailing high with the Japanese girl
 CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’, NEVERMIND
 Sailing high with the Japanese girl
 California dreamin’ never across the world

 Let your father try to understand
 Say you love me
 Let your mother
 Never make you say Sayonara
 Say you love me
 Sayonara

 Sailing high with the Japanese girl
 CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’, NEVERMIND
 Sailing high with the Japanese girl
 CALIFORNIA GIRLS can never die

 Fall in love with the Japanese girl
 CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’, NEVERMIND
 Fall in love with the Japanese girl
 California dreamin’ never across the earth