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        The Beach Boys

        Producer: The Beach Boys?
        Released February 3, 1969
        Capitol Records 80133
        Charted: 3/1/69
        Highest chart position: 68
        Spent 11 weeks on the charts
        Album Archive entry
        Guitar tabs


        1. Do It Again
        2. I Can Hear Music
        3. Bluebirds Over The Mountain
        4. Be With Me
        5. All I Want To Do
        6. The Nearest Faraway Place
        7. Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)
        8. I Went To Sleep
        9. Time To Get Alone
        10. Never Learn Not To Love
        11. Our Prayer
        12. Cabinessence



        1. "Do It Again"
        Time: 2:29 Irving Music, Inc. BMI
        Master #71536 Recorded 6/??/68
        Single released 7?/??/68 (Capitol-????)
        Charted 7/27/68 Reached #20
        A side with "Wake The World"
        Brian Wilson/Mike Love

        It's automatic when I
        Talk with old friends
        The conversation turns to
        Girls we knew when their
        Hair was soft and long and the
        Beach was the place to go

        Suntanned bodies and
        Waves of sunshine the
        California girls and a
        Beautiful coastline
        Warmed up weather
        Let's get together and
        Do it again

        With a girl the lonely sea looks good in moonlight
        Makes your nighttimes warm and out of sight

        Been so long
        (Hey now hey now hey now hey now hey now)
        (Hey now hey now hey now hey now hey now)

        Well I've been thinking 'bout
        All the places we've surfed and danced and
        All the faces we've missed so let's get
        Back together and do it again

        Ow!


        2. "I Can Hear Music"
        Time: 2:38 Trio Music Company, Inc./Mother Bertha Music, Inc. BMI
        Master #71521 Recorded 10/1/68
        Single released 2?/??/69 (Capitol-????)
        Charted 3/8/69 Reached #24
        A side with "All I Want To Do"
        Jeff Barry/Ellie Greenwich/Phil Spector

        Ahhhhhh oooooo

        This is the way
        I always dreamed it would be
        The way that it is, oh oh
        When you are holding me
        I never had a love of my own
        Maybe that's why when we're all alone

        I can hear music
        I can hear music
        The sound of the city baby seems to disappear
        I can hear music
        Sweet sweet music
        Whenever you touch me baby
        Whenever you're near

        Lovin' you
        It keeps me satisfied
        And I can't explain, oh no
        The way I'm feeling inside
        You look at me we kiss and then
        I close my eyes and here it comes again

        I can hear music
        I can hear music
        The sound of the city baby seems to disappear
        I can hear music
        Sweet sweet music
        Whenever you touch me baby
        Whenever you're near

        I hear the music all the time, yeah
        I hear the music, hold me tight now baby
        I hear the music all the time
        I hear the music
        I hear the music (baby)

        Ahhhhh

        I can hear music
        I can hear music
        The sound of the city baby seems to disappear
        I can hear music
        Sweet sweet music
        Whenever you touch me baby
        Whenever you're near


        3. "Bluebirds Over The Mountain"
        Time: 2:54 Brother Publishing Co. BMI
        Master #25231 Recorded 9/29/67 & 11/14/68
        Single released 11?/??/68 (Capitol-????)
        Charted 12/14/68 Reached #61
        A side with "Never Learn Not To Love"
        Ersel Hickey

        Bluebirds over the mountain
        Seagulls over the sea-ea-ea
        Bluebirds over the mountain
        Bring my baby to me

        A boy and a girl they once found love
        To each it seemed like heaven above
        He looked into her eyes and said
        Ooo wee baby you're so good for my head

        Bluebirds over the mountain
        Seagulls over the sea-ea-ea
        Bluebirds over the mountain
        Bring my baby to me

        Oh everyone in every land
        Please give me a helping hand
        If you see her all alone
        Oh tell my baby "won't you please come home?"

        Bluebirds over the mountain
        Seagulls over the sea-ea-ea
        Bluebirds over the mountain
        Bring my baby to me

        Oh bring my baby back
        I don't know why she's been so long
        But all I know is that she's gone
        Oh bring my baby back to me
        Well I'm in pain can't you see

        A boy and a girl they once found love
        To each it seemed like heaven above
        I guess that's why we fell in love
        And now she's gone and all I have to say is

        Bluebirds over the mountain
        Seagulls over the sea yeah
        Bluebirds over the mountain
        Bring my baby to me

        Bring my baby
        Oooo Baby
        Oooo oooo oooo oooo


        4. "Be With Me"
        Time: 3:16 Brother Publishing Co. BMI
        Master #71330 Recorded 11/11/68
        Dennis Wilson

        You're going out tonight
        You put your real cool looking clothes on
        You're getting uptight
        About some little thing I said

        All that I said
        "I couldn't play the game"
        It shouldn't make any difference to you

        Go walking around night
        The wind's really blowing
        It's too cold to talk
        I wonder if she's knowing

        She should be with me
        It could set her free
        Come with me
        Be with me
        A part of me

        (Free)
        Da da da da da da da da da da
        (Free)
        Da da da da da da da da da da

        Everything we will see
        Everything we will be
        We will be

        A new child is born
        The mother is still waiting
        Father's over there anticipating
        Won't you be with me
        It could set you (us) free
        Come with me
        Be with me
        A part of me

        (Free)
        Da da da da da da da da da da
        (Free)
        Da da da da da da da da da da

        (Free)
        Da da da da da da da da da da
        (Free)
        Da da da da da da da da da da

        (Free)
        Da da da da da da da da da da


        5. "All I Want To Do"
        Time: 2:05 Brother Publishing Co. BMI
        Master #71399 Recorded 11/21/68
        B side with "I Can Hear Music"
        Dennis Wilson

        You ain't got time for diamonds
        And you pay no mind to gold
        You gave up everything you had
        But there's one thing I want you to hold

        Come let the power through you
        Come on and let me thrill you
        Mama now

        (Baby come on come on)
        Come on baby
        (Baby come on come on)
        Come on baby
        I just want to do it with you

        Well I don't care where you want to go
        Just so you go with me
        And I don't care what you want to do
        But make sure you do it with me

        All I want to do with you
        Well I just make-a some love to you

        Come on baby
        (Baby come on come on)
        Come on baby
        (Baby come on come on)
        I said baby
        (Baby come on come on)
        I just want to do it to you
        All night lo-ong

        Yeah yeah
        (Baby come on come on)
        Come on baby
        (Baby come on come on)
        I said baby
        I just want to make it with you
        Ohhhh
        Come on
        Come on come on come on baby
        (Baby)


        6. "The Nearest Faraway Place"
        Time: 2:41 Wilojarston Music Publishing ASCAP
        Master #70063 Recorded 6/20/68
        B side with "Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)
        Bruce Johnston


        7. "Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)"
        Time: 2:25 TRO-Folkways Music Publishing, Inc. BMI
        Master #71398 Recorded 11/18/68
        Huddie Ledbetter

        When I was a little bitty baby
        My mama done rock me in the cradle
        In them old cotton fields back home
        It was back in Louisiana
        Just about a mile from Texarkana
        In them old cotton fields back home

        Let me tell you now well got me in a fix
        I caught a nail in my tire doing lickitey splits
        I had to walk a long long way to town
        Came upon a nice old man well he had a hat on
        Wait a minute mister can you give me some directions
        I gonna want to be right off for home

        Don't care if them cotton balls get rotten
        When I got you baby, who needs cotton
        In them old cotton fields back home
        Brother only one thing more that's gonna warm you
        A summer's day out in California
        It's gonna be those cotton fields back home

        It was back in Louisiana
        Just about a mile from Texarkana
        Give me them cotton fields
        (It was back in Louisiana)
        Let me hear it for the cotton fields
        (Just about a mile from Texarkana)
        You know that there's just no place like home

        Well boy it sure feels good to breathe the air back home
        You shoulda seen their faces when they seen how I grown
        In them old cotton fields back home


        8. "I Went To Sleep"
        Time: 1:39 Irving Music, Inc. BMI
        Master #59990 Recorded 6/??/68
        Brian Wilson

        I took a walk and sat down in a park
        The gardener walked out and the sprinklers went on
        They watered the lawn and I went to sleep

        Ten thirty I turned my radio on
        Some group was playing a musical song
        It wasn't too long and I went to sleep

        Again at the park on a nice summer day
        High up above me the trees gently sway
        A bird flew away and I went to sleep


        9. "Time To Get Alone"
        Time: 2:43 Irving Music, Inc. BMI
        Master #71331 Recorded 10/2/68 and 10/4/68
        Brian Wilson

        I looked at you baby
        And what did I see
        I saw love in your eyes
        Made me feel so warm inside

        Now look at me baby
        And what do you see
        You see love in my eyes
        Gleaming just for you

        And now we know it's
        Time to get alone
        To get alone
        And just be together
        We'll only be together

        Come and do a couple days
        Just a ways
        Away from the people
        And safe from the people

        The pine-scented air
        Smells so good in the snow
        In our toboggan we'll go
        Screaming down the mountainside

        The touch of your cheeks
        When they're rosy and cold
        Feels so cozy to hold
        Just to take you close
        And make you warm and

        Time to get alone
        To get alone
        And just be together
        We'll only be together

        Come and do a couple days
        Just a ways
        Away from the people
        And safe from the people

        Lyin' down on our backs
        Lookin' at the sky
        Looking down through the valley so
        Deep and wide

        Aren't you glad we finally got away
        Glad we finally got away
        Aren't you glad we finally got away

        Now I looked around baby
        And what do I see
        I see love in your eyes
        And I'm so glad that we
        Finally had some

        Time to get alone
        To get alone
        And just be together
        We'll only be together

        Come and do a couple days
        Just a ways
        Away from the people
        And safe from the people


        10. "Never Learn Not To Love"
        Time: 2:34 Irving Music, Inc. BMI
        Master #71063 Recorded 9/11/68
        B side with "Bluebirds Over The Mountain"
        Dennis Wilson/(Charles Manson uncredited lyricist)

        Cease to resist, come on say you love me
        Give up your world, come on and be with me
        I'm your kind, I'm your kind, and I see

        Come on come on, ooo I love you pretty girl
        My life is yours, and you can have my world
        I'm your kind, I'm your kind, and I see

        Never had a lesson I ever learned
        I know I could never learn not to love you
        Come in now closer
        Come in closer closer closer ahhhh

        Submission is a gift, give it to your lover
        Love and understanding is for one another
        I'm your kind, I'm your kind, and I see

        Never had a lesson I ever learned
        I know I could never learn not to love you
        Come in now closer
        Come in closer come in closer ahhhh

        Ahhh-ahhh-ahhh-ahhh-ahhhhhh
        Ahhh-ahhh-ahhh-ahhh-ahhhhhh


        11. "Our Prayer"
        Time: 1:09 Irving Music, Inc. BMI
        Master #71538 Recorded 10/4/66
        Brian Wilson


        12. "Cabinessence"
        Time: 3:37 Irving Music, Inc. BMI
        Master #56716 Recorded 10/3/66, 10/11/66, 12/6/66, 12/27/66, and 11/20/68
        Brian Wilson/Van Dyke Parks

        Light the lamp and fire mellow,
        Cabin essence timely hello,
        Welcomes the time for a change.

        Lost and found, you still remain there.
        You'll find a meadow filled with grain there.
        I'll give you a home on the range.

        Who ran the iron horse?
        Who ran the iron horse?
        Who ran the iron horse?
        Who ran the iron horse?
        Who ran the iron horse?
        Who ran the iron horse?
        Who ran the iron horse?
        Who ran the iron horse?
        Who ran the iron horse?
        Who ran the iron horse?

        I want to watch you windblown facing
        Waves of wheat for your embracing.
        Folks sing a song of the grange.

        Nestle in a kiss below there.
        The constellations ebb and flow there.
        And witness our home on the range.

        Who ran the iron horse?
        (Truck driving man do what you can)
        Who ran the iron horse?
        (High-tail your load off the road)
        Who ran the iron horse?
        (Out of night-life-it's a gas man)
        Who ran the iron horse?
        (I don't believe I gotta grieve)
        Who ran the iron horse?
        (In and out of luck)
        Who ran the iron horse?
        (With a buck and a booth)
        Who ran the iron horse?
        (Catchin' on to the truth)
        Who ran the iron horse?
        (In the vast past, the last gasp)
        Who ran the iron horse?
        (In the land, in the dust, trust that you must)
        Who ran the iron horse?
        (Catch as catch can)

        Have you seen the grand coolie workin' on the railroad?
        Have you seen the grand coolie workin' on the railroad?
        Have you seen the grand coolie workin' on the railroad?

        Over and over,
        The crow cries uncover the cornfield.
        Over and over,
        The thresher and hover the wheat field.

        Over and over,
        The crow cries uncover the cornfield.
        Over and over,
        The thresher and hover the wheat field.

        Over and over,
        The crow cries uncover the cornfield.
        Over and over,
        The thresher and hover the wheat field.




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