FRIENDS

        The Beach Boys

        Producer: The Beach Boys
        Released June 24, 1968
        Capitol Records ST-2895
        Charted: 7/6/68
        Highest chart position: 126
        Spent 10 weeks on the charts
        Album Archive entry
        Guitar tabs


        1. Meant For You
        2. Friends
        3. Wake The World
        4. Be Here In The Morning
        5. When A Man Needs A Woman
        6. Passing By
        7. Anna Lee, The Healer
        8. Little Bird
        9. Be Still
        10. Busy Doin' Nothin'
        11. Diamond Head
        12. Transcendental Meditation



        1. "Meant For You"
        Time: 0:41 Irving Music, Inc. BMI
        Master #59426 Recorded 4/??/68
        Brian Wilson/Mike Love

        As I sit and close my eyes
        There's peace in my mind
        And I'm hoping that you'll find it too
        And these feelings in my heart
        I know are meant for you

        Meant for you


        2. "Friends"
        Time: 2:34 Irving Music, Inc. BMI
        Master #59400 Recorded 3/??/68
        Single released 4?/??/68 (Capitol-????)
        Charted 4/20/68 Reached #47
        A side with "Little Bird"
        Brian Wilson/Carl Wilson/Dennis Wilson/Al Jardine

        We've been friends now for so many years
        We've been together through the good times and the tears
        Turned each other on to the good things that life has to give

        We drift apart for a little bit of a spell
        One night I get a call and I know that you're well
        And days I was down you would help me get out of my hole

        Ohhhhhhhh

        Let's be friends
        Let's be friends
        Let's be friends

        You told me when my girl was untrue
        I loaned you money when the funds weren't too cool
        I talked your folks out of making you cut off your hair

        We've been friends now for so many years
        We've been together through the good times and the tears
        Dim dipple ee dim dipple ay dim dipple oo dim dee aye oh


        3. "Wake The World"
        Time: 1:34 Irving Music, Inc. BMI
        Master #59340 Recorded 3/??/68
        B side with "Do It Again"
        Brian Wilson/Al Jardine

        One by one the stars appear
        The light of the day is no longer here

        One by one the stars disappear
        The sky grows brighter every minute of the sunrise

        Wake the world with a brand new morning
        Say hello to another fine morning
        Got my face in the running water

        Making my life so much brighter
        Moon shines bright, asleep in my bed
        Like so many people got a big day ahead of me

        Wake the world with a brand new morning
        Say hello to another fine morning
        Wouldn't miss it for all of its glory
        I'll be there when you're calling me

        One by one the stars appear
        The light of the day is no longer here


        4. "Be Here In The Morning"
        Time: 2:18 Irving Music, Inc. BMI
        Master #59341 Recorded 3/??/68
        Brian Wilson/Carl Wilson/Mike Love/Dennis Wilson/Al Jardine

        It's been such a long day so you better hurry home
        Lit all my incense and I wish you were home
        Only five minutes and you walk through my door

        Be here in the morning
        Be here in the evening
        Be here and make my life full

        Be here in the morning
        Be here in the evening
        Be here and make my life

        Stay here on the weekend and unplug the phone
        (Alright then)
        No calls from Korthoff, Parks, or Grillo
        I only hope that you come here alone

        Be here in the morning
        Be here in the evening
        Be here and make my life full

        Be here in the morning
        Be here in the evening
        Be here and make my life

        Be here in the morning
        Be here in the evening
        Be here and make my life


        5. "When A Man Needs A Woman"
        Time: 2:08 Irving Music, Inc. BMI
        Master #59358 Recorded 3/??/68
        Brian Wilson/Dennis Wilson/Al Jardine/Steve Korthof/ Jon Parks

        You know it makes you nervous
        When you wait for you boy
        You wait nine months for a bundle of joy
        There's a baby
        Yes, there's a baby about to be born

        And someday I'll put my son on my knee
        And his little eyes will be looking at me
        Then I'll tell him
        When a man needs a woman
        They make things like you, my son

        When a man needs a woman
        They make things like you, my son

        A man needs a woman
        Like a woman needs a man
        When the two get together, oh oh oh
        Pretty soon we'll be a family of three
        Then it's not gonna be just you and me
        We'll share all the goodies
        With the one we bring in the world

        When a man needs a woman
        They make things like you, my son


        6. "Passing By"
        Time: 2:26 Irving Music, Inc. BMI
        Master #59393 Recorded 3/??/68
        Brian Wilson


        7. "Anna Lee, The Healer"
        Time: 1:54 Irving Music, Inc. BMI
        Master #59427 Recorded 4/??/68
        Mike Love/Brian Wilson

        Anna Lee, Anna Lee, the healer
        Healer with the healing hands
        Makes you well as quick as she can
        You'd love to see those smiling eyes
        Of Anna Lee

        From the Himalaya mountain side
        Up in Rishikesh
        To a California beach house
        Facing towards the sea
        Goes a gal who got her fame
        By going round healing folks

        Anna Lee, Anna Lee, the healer
        Healer with the healing hands
        Makes you well as quick as she can
        You'd feel those healing hands
        Of Anna Lee

        When she gets a chance to help someone
        She's really happy
        If you trust her with your ill
        She'll quickly make you see
        She can fix things up for you
        Just like she did for me

        Anna Lee, Anna Lee, the healer
        She cures people with her hands
        I'm just one of her many fans
        You'd love to feel those healing hands
        Of Anna Lee

        The healer, the healer, the healer, the healer


        8. "Little Bird"
        Time: 2:00 Irving Music, Inc. BMI
        Master #59214 Recorded 2/??/68
        B side with "Friends"
        Dennis Wilson/S. Kalinich

        Little bird up in a tree
        Looked down and sang a song to me
        Of how it began

        Na na na na na na
        Na na na na na na
        Na na na na na na

        The trout in the shiny brook
        Gave the worm another look
        And told me not to worry
        About my life

        Na na na na na na
        Na na na na na na
        Na na na na na na

        Tree in my own backyard
        Stands all alone
        Bears fruit for me
        And it tastes so good

        Where's my pretty bird
        He must have flown away
        If I keep singing
        He'll come back someday

        Dawn, bird's still gone
        Guess I'll go mow the lawn

        What a day, what a day
        Oooo, what a beautiful day this is

        Ooooooooo

        Little bird up in a tree
        Looked down a sang a song to me

        The trout in a shiny brook
        Gave the worm another look
        And told me not to worry about my life

        Little bird looked down
        And sang a song to me
        Little bird looked down
        And sang a songto me
        Little bird looked down
        And sang a song to me


        9. "Be Still"
        Time: 1:25 Irving Music, Inc. BMI
        Master #59581 Recorded 4/??/68
        Dennis Wilson/S. Kalinich

        You know, you know you are
        Be still and know you are
        Your life is meant for joy
        It's all so deep within, oh

        Your life is beautiful
        A seed becomes a tree
        A mountain into a sky
        This life is meant to be, oh

        Now is the time life begins
        Take that simple path
        And love will set you free
        Live in harmony
        And love will set you free, oh

        You know, you know you are
        Be still and know you are
        You know, you know you are
        Be still and know you are


        10. "Busy Doin' Nothin'"
        Time: 3:07 Irving Music, Inc. BMI
        Master #59470 Recorded 4/??/68
        Brian Wilson

        I had to fix a lot of things this morning
        'Cause they were so scrambled
        But now it's okay
        I tell you I've got enough to do

        The afternoon was filled up with phone calls
        What a hot sticky day, yeah yeah yeah
        The air is cooling down

        Take all the time you need
        It's a lovely night
        If you decide to come
        You're gonna do it right

        Drive for a couple miles
        You'll see a sign and turn left
        For a couple blocks
        Next is mine, you'll turn left on a little road
        It's a bumpy one

        You'll see a white fence
        Move the gate and drive through on the left side
        Come right in
        And you'll find me in my house somewhere
        Keeping busy while I wait

        I get a lot of thoughts in the morning
        I write 'em all down
        If it wasn't for that
        I'd forget 'em in a while

        And lately I've been thinking Ôbout a good friend
        I'd like to see more of, yeah yeah yeah
        I think I'll make a call

        I wrote a number down
        But I lost it
        So I searched through my pocket book
        I couldn't find it
        So I sat and concentrated on the number
        And slowly it came to me
        So I dialed it

        And I let it ring a few times
        There was no answer
        So I let it ring a little more
        Still no answer

        So I hung up the telephone
        Got some paper and sharpened up a pencil
        And wrote a letter to my friend


        11. "Diamond Head"
        Time: 3:40 Irving Music, Inc. BMI
        Master #59496 Recorded 4/??/68
        A Vescozo/L. Ritz/J. Ackley/Brian Wilson


        12. "Transcendental Meditation"
        Time: 1:50 Irving Music, Inc. BMI
        Master #59428 Recorded 4/??/68
        Brian Wilson/Mike Love/Al Jardine

        Transcendental meditation
        Can emancipate the man
        A get you feeling grand

        Fusion of
        The never changing wind
        The ever changing wind
        The never changing world
        It's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good

        Transcendental meditation

        Transcendental meditation
        Can emancipate the man
        And get you feeling grand
        It's good




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