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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