[Verse 1]
One summer evening
The sun was going down
Was lying on the beach
In her graduation gown
She was wrapped up in a blanket
I could tell she knew her way around
As I lay down beside her
You know she never made a sound

[Verse 2]
On down the beach
Came beach-cleaning man
Scooping up the paper
Flattening down the sand
"Lucinda, Lucinda, Lucinda
Got to run away
That big white truck is closing in
And we'll get wounded if we stay"

[Verse 3]
Now Lucinda lies buried
'Neath the California sand
Put under by the beach-cleaning man
Lucinda, Lucinda, Lucinda
Why'd you have to go?
Well, they sent her to high school
And they sent her to low school
She just wouldn't go no further