Beach Boys : Surf's Up

Capo:

I

D

G

D

Don't go near the water, don't you think it's sad?

D

G

A

D

What's happened to the water? Our water's going bad

D

/c#

/b

/a

Oceans, rivers, lakes and streams

G

D

Have all been touched by man

D

/c#

/b

/a

The poison floating out to sea

G

A

D

Now threatens life on land

D

G

D

Don't go near the water, ain't it sad?

D

G

D

What's happened to the water? It's going bad!

G

D

Bm

Don't go near the water, don't go near the water

D

Bm

Toothpaste and soap will make our oceans a bubble bath

D

Bm

So let's avoid an ecological aftermath

D

Bm

D

Beginning with me, beginning with you

D

/c#

/b

/a

Don't go near the water

G

D

To do it any wrong

D

/c#

/b

/a

To be cool with the water is

G

A

D

The message of this song

D

G

D

Let's all help the water, right away!

D

G

D

Do what we can and oughta, let's start today!

C#add2

C#

Cadd2

C

Badd2

B

E

E/d#

E/c#

E/b

A

A/b

E

E/d#

E/c#

E/b

A

A/b

C#m

A

A/b

E

Cmaj7

Em

So hard to answer future's riddle

F

When ahead is seeming so far behind

Cmaj7

Em

So hard to laugh a childlike giggle

F

When the tears start to torture my mind

Em/g

Dm

So hard to shed the life of before

F

To let my soul automatically soar

C

F

But I hit hard at the battle that's confronting me, yeah

C

F

Knock down all the roadblocks a-stumbling me

C

Dm

C/e

F

Throw off all the shackles that are binding me down Sew up the wounds of evolution And the now starts to get in my way So what if life's a revelation If the mind speaks of only today So real, the pain growing in soul Of climbing up to reality's goal

F/c

Long promised road

Dm6/f

Em7

Am7/e

Em7/a

Am7

Trail starts at dawn carries on to the season's ending

F/c

Long promised road

Dm6/f

Em7

Am7/e

Em7/a

Am7

Flows to the source, gentle force, never ending, never ending So hard to lift the jewelled sceptre When the weight turns a smile to a frown So hard to drink of passion nectar When the taste of life's holding me down So hard to plant the seed of reform To set my sights on defeating the storm

A

D

A

D

I do 'em when I'm down in the tub

A

D

A

D

With avocado cream they'll take a rub

A

D

A

D

They wrinkle like raisins if I stay too long

A

E

A

I wouldn't want to do it wrong They'll put you in the driver's seat And to the table when you want to eat But when you go to sit down in your chair

E7#9

Something else has got to put you there

D

E

A

Take good care of your feet, Pete

D

E

A

You better watch out what you eat, Pete

D

C#m

B7

E7

Better take care of your life 'cause nobody else will They'll twinkle when you fall in love And put you there when you jump up above When you're on the spot, get them right under you One, then the other too

F#m

C#m

If you want to do the right thing for them

F#m

C#m

Just take a walk in the grass

F#m

C#m

But don't you catch yourself fallin'

Bm7

E7

Or steppin' on a piece of glass Pete knows all the treacherous foes The fallen arches and the cramp in the toes He went to HELP and got some sandals new And does the yoga asanas too Take a load of your feet Pete You better watch out what you eat Better take care of your life 'cause nobody else will

Capo:

I

F

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Fmaj7

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Gm7/f

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F

F/g

F/a

Bb

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Dm/a

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Gm7/c

|

C7

F

Am/e

Gm7/d

Gm7

Clearing skies and drying eyes now I see your smile

Gm7/c

C7

Fmaj7

F

Bb/f

Fdim

Darkness goes and softness shows a changing style

F

Am/e

Gm7/d

Gm7

Just in time words that rhyme well bless your soul

Gm7/c

C7

Fmaj7

F6

Now I'll fill your hands with kisses and a Tootsie Roll

Eb

Bb/d

F/c

F7

Oh reality, it's not for me and it makes me laugh

Eb7

Bb/d

F/c

Oh, fantasy world and Disney girls I'm coming back

F

Fdim

C7

Gm7/d

C7/e

Patti Page and summer days on old Cape Cod Happy times making wine in my garage Country shade and lemonade guess I'm slowing down It's a turned back world with a local girl in a smaller town Open cars and clearer stars that's what I've lacked But fantasy world and Disney girls I'm coming back

A7

Dm

Gm7

Love! Hi Rick and Dave, hi Pop, good morning mom

C7

Fmaj7

F6

Love! Get up, guess what I'm in love with a girl I found

Bb

C7/bb

Gdim/a

She's really swell 'cause she likes Church, bingo chances

A7

D7+

D7

Fdim/g

G7

C7+

C7

Gm7/c

C7

And old time dances All my life I spent the night with dreams of you And the warmth I missed and the things I wished they're all coming true I've got my love to give and a place to live guess I'm gonna stay It'd be a peaceful life with a forever wife and a kid someday It's early nights and pillow fights and your soft laugh Fantasy world and Disney girls I'm coming back

A

Starting out with Berkeley Free Speech and later on at People's Park The winds of change fanned into flames student demonstrations spark Down to Isla Vista where police felt so harassed They called the special riot squad of the LA County Sheriff

D

Well there's a riot going on

A

There's a riot going on

E

There's a riot going on

D

A

E

Student demonstration time

A

The violence spread down South to where Jackson State brothers Learned not to say nasty things about Southern policemen's mothers Nothing much was said about it and really next to nothing done The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for a gun Well there's a riot going on There's a riot going on Well there's a riot going on 'Cause it's student demonstration time

A

America was stunned on May 4th, 1970 When rally turned to riot up at Kent State University They said the students scared the guard, though the troops were battle-dressed Four martyrs earned a new degree: the Bachelor of Bullets I know we're all fed up with useless wars and racial strife But next time there's a riot, well, you best stay out of sight Well there's a riot going on There's a riot going on Well there's a riot going on Student demonstration time

A

D

A

D

Stay away when there's a riot going on

A

D

A

D

Stay away when there's a riot going on

C

Em7

F

Unfolding, enveloping missiles of soul

C

G

F

Recall senses sadly

C

Em7

F

Mirage-like, soft blue like lanterns below

C

G

F

To light the way gladly

C/e

Em7/d

F/c

Whether whistling heaven's clouds disappear

C

G/b

F/a

Whether wind withers memory

C

G

F

Whether whiteness whisks soft shadows away

Cm7/eb

Feel flows (White puff glistening shadowy flows)

F

Feel goes (Black puff glistening shadowy flows) Unbending, never-ending tablets of time Record all the yearning Un-fearing, all-appearing message divine Eases the burning Whether willing witness waits at my mind Whether hope dampens memory Whether wondrous will stands tall at my side Feel flows (White puff glistening shadowy flows) Feel goes (Black puff glistening shadowy flows)

Cm

F/c

Cm

F/c

Cm

F/c

Cm7

F/c

Cm

F/c

Cm

F/c

Cm

F/c

Cm7

F/c

Encasing, all-embracing wreath of repose Engulfs all the senses Imposing, un-closing thoughts that compose Retire the fences Whether wholly heartened life fades away Whether harps heal the memory Whether wholly heartened life fades away Whether wondrous will stands tall at my side Whether whiteness whisks soft shadows away Feel flows (White puff glistening shadowy flows) Feel goes (Black puff glistening shadowy flows)

Em(maj7)/d# x21000

Em7/d x20030

C#m7b5 x42000

Em6 022020

Em

Em(maj7)/d#

I've been laying on my back

Em7/d

C#m7b5

Like a freight train off the track

Cmaj7

C#m7b5

Em7/d

C#m7b5

Trying to find a job to fit my trade

Em

Em(maj7)/d#

With the morning sun come round

Em7/d

C#m7b5

And I'll be covering plenty of ground

C7

B7

Em

And I don't need nobody to pay my aid

Asus2

Em

A

Mmm-mmm-mmm, pay my aid Now Bess and me were feeling bad And all the good jobs, they were had I had to take to sweeping up some floors Well I don't mind that so much Or the changing of my luck But you know I could be doing so much more Mmm-mmm-mmm Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba Bip bip bip bip bip bip bip bip bip bip Well I'll be coming home tonight And everything will be all right

C7

B7

Em6

And we'll be looking at tomorrow

Alternate last verse from the demo version:

Bess and me were feeling had And for the good times we were glad And some words I read, well they came back to me I'll be coming home tonight And everything will be all right They were an inspiration to me Oh, to me

D

F#m/d

Em7/d

D7

Feel the wind burn through my skin

Em7/d

A7/d

D

The pain, the air is killing me

D

F#m/d

Em7/d

D7

For years my limbs stretched to the sky

Em7/d

A7/d

D

A nest for birds to sit and sing

G

A7

A#dim

Bm

But now my branches suffer

D7

Em

And my leaves don't bear the glow

F#m

Em7/g

A7

D

They did so long ago One day I was full of life My sap was rich and I was strong From seed to tree I grew so tall Through wind and rain I could not fall But now my branches suffer And my leaves don't offer Poetry to men of song Trees like me weren't meant to live If all this world can give Is pollution and slow death Oh Lord I lay me down No life's left to be found There's nothing left for me Trees like me weren't meant to live If all this earth can give Is pollution Oh Lord I lay me down My branches to the ground There's nothing left for me

Abmaj7

Cm/bb

Bb

I'm a cork on the ocean

C

Cm/bb

Bb

Floating over the raging sea

Cmaj7

Fmaj7/c

F6/c

How deep is the ocean?

Bm

Cmaj7

How deep is the ocean?

Em9

Gmaj7

I lost my way, hey, hey, hey I'm a rock in a landslide Rolling over the mountainside How deep is the valley? How deep is the valley? It kills my soul, hey, hey, hey I'm a leaf on a windy day Pretty soon I'll be blown away How long will the wind blow? How long will the wind blow?

Em9

G

Doo doo doo-doo doo-doo-doo-doo doo doo

Bbmaj7

Ebmaj7

D7

G

Until I die, until I die

G

Bbmaj7

Ebmaj7

D7

G

These things I'll be until I die These things I'll be until I die...

Gm7/d

A diamond necklace played the pawn Hand-in-hand some drummed along, oh

Dm7/g

To a handsome man and baton

Gm7/d

A blind class aristocracy Back through the opera glass you see

Dm7/g

The pit and the pendulum drawn

Bb

Gm7

F/c

C

D/c

Columnated ruins domino

G/d

A9/g

Canvass the town and brush the backdrop

D/a

Are you sleeping?

Gm7/d

Hung velvet overtaken me Dim chandelier awaken me

Dm7/g

To a song dissolved in the dawn

Gm7/d

The music hall a costly bow The music all is lost for now

Dm7/g

To a muted trumpeter's swan

Bb

Gm7

F/c

C

D/c

Columnated ruins domino

G/d

A9/g

Canvass the town and brush the backdrop

D/a

D

Em7

Gm7/f

D/f#

Are you sleeping Brother John?

Fm7/ab

Eb/bb

Dove-nested towers the hour was strike the street quicksilver moon

Fm7/ab

Eb/bb

Carriage across the fog two-step to lamplight cellar tune

Dm7

Gm7/c

C7

F

The laughs come hard in Auld Lang Syne

Dm7

Gm7/c

C7

The glass was raised, the fired rose the fullness of the wine

Edim

F

The dim last toasting

Dm7

Gm7/c

C7

F

While at port adieu or die

Dm7

Gm7/c

A choke of grief heart hardened I, beyond belief

C7

F

A broken man too tough to cry

Fm7/ab

Eb/bb

Surf's Up mm-mm mm-mm mm-mm aboard aboard a tidal wave

Fm7/ab

Eb/bb

Come about hard and join the young and often spring you gave

Dbmaj9

Cm7

I heard the word, wonderful thing

Fm7

Cm7/f

Bb

Cm7

A children's song

Fm7

Cm7/f

Bb

Cm

A children's song, have you listened as they play? Their song is love and the children know the way

Beach Boys : Surf's Up
1971

Don't Go Near The Water

Long Promised Road

Take A Load Off Your Feet

Disney Girls (1957)

Student Demonstration Time

Feel Flows

Looking At Tomorrow (A Welfare Song)

A Day In The Life Of A Tree

'Til I Die

Surf's Up

Beach Boys : Surf's Up 1971

Don't Go Near The Water

Long Promised Road

Take A Load Off Your Feet

Disney Girls (1957)

Student Demonstration Time

Feel Flows

Looking At Tomorrow (A Welfare Song)

A Day In The Life Of A Tree

'Til I Die

Surf's Up

Beach Boys : Surf's Up
1971