[Verse 1]
We met one summer evening
As the sun was going down
She 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 the beach-cleaning man
Scoopin' 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 got to go?
Well, they sent her to high school
They sent her to low school
She just wouldn't go no further