Story Behind the Song
The legendary song. We used to have to play it three or four times a night ‘cause you’d get people that just wanted to hear it over and over again. This song was written in the days before ARIEL and we used to sneak it in to the sets of whatever bands we were playing with. The green vinyl single got tons of airplay on the west coast. We still can’t do a gig without people yelling for it. Woa-oh!
Lyrics
IN MENDOCINO
Up Northern California way,
happy people live so free.
Farmers, artists, fishermen,
make their home here by the sea.
On hills above the jagged coast,
lie stalks of happy green.
Planted very carefully...
by the air they can't be seen!
In Mendocino. Whoa-oh.
Redwoods tower to the sky.
Sinsemilla. Whoa-oh.
Farmers crops all grow so high.
And everywhere throughout the land,
these simple facts are known:
Mendocino's fruit is sweet and strong,
cause it's California grown.
If strangers wander through the fields,
farmers spread the alarm,
And come with guns a-blazing,
to protect those buds from harm!
In Mendocino. Whoa-oh.
Redwoods tower to the sky.
Sinsemilla. Whoa-oh.
Farmers crops all grow so high.
(NOTE: Following tradition, the third verse is the same as the first.)
From the album "17 Grandes Exitos"
Words and Music by JJ Jenkins and George Petersen
© 1984 JENPET Music International (ASCAP)
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