MOUNT VERNON AND FAIRWAY


        The Beach Boys


        Bonus EP with "Holland"
        Story, Composition and Lyrics by Brian Wilson
        Additional material by Jack Rieley and Carl Wilson
        Production by Carl Wilson

        (Please listen in the dark)

        Lyrics without special punctuation are the narrator
        Lyrics in parantheses are sung
        Lyrics in brackets are the Pied Piper
        Album Archive entry
        1. Mount Vernon And Fairway-Theme
        2. I'm The Pied Piper-Instrumental
        3. Better Get Back In Bed
        4. Magic Transistor Radio
        5. Radio King Dom
        6. I'm The Pied Piper
        Holland lyrics here.

        1. "Mt. Vernon And Fairway-Theme"
        Time: 1:35

        There was a mansion on a hill
        But deep in a secret kingdom
        Where a young prince lived
        He had four sisters and four brothers

        The prince had a special bedroom on the ground floor
        With a window that looked down into a deep deep forest
        He could see distant lights from other castles in the kingdom
        >From his window

        During the day
        He went to school
        When it became night
        He stayed by himself
        Usually in his secret hidden bedroom

        One night
        While nearly everyone was asleep
        He took out of the attic a radio
        And he decided to listen to it

        2. "I'm The Pied Piper-Instrumental"
        Time: 2:20

        As soon as he turned it on
        The wind outside of his room
        Stirred up for a few seconds

        He thought to himself
        "I'll climb out my window
        And go sit out there with my radio"

        Out the window he went
        Sitting against a small stump
        Behind some flowerbeds

        The light from his bedroom window he could still see
        The music of Bach was playing

        After a while it began to sound distant
        As the young prince gazed at this radio on his knee
        The music was floating away from his hearing

        What could be happening
        He took it off of his knee
        And put the radio to his ear
        Nothing happened

        Then the transistor left his hands
        And was floating in the mid-air
        Two feet off the ground

        As the prince laughed
        It suddenly turned around
        And it was light green phosphourous in color

        Dancing back and forth
        The magic transistor
        Started moving down his path

        He could hear the sound out
        Like nothing he had ever heard before

        The trees were getting closer together
        And flowers glowed with tinges of magic light
        As he followed thinking to himself
        "What's going on?"

        The transistor lifted slowly
        Up to the top of a little tree
        And sat there
        While it slowly became louder
        To where the prince could hear it clearly

        Fireflies shot across the path in front of the prince
        He turned around and couldn't see the light from his window
        There he was watching all alone all by himself
        He got a hunch to get back to his room
        And he turned and ran right back

        3. "Better Get Back In Bed"
        Time: 1:37

        (Pied Piper)
        (I'd better get back in bed)
        (Hope I'll see you again)

        (Pied Piper)
        (I'd better get back in bed)
        (Hope I'll see you again)

        (Pied Piper)
        (I'd better get back in bed)
        (Hope I'll see you again)

        (Pied Piper)
        (I'll be running along)

        Thirty seconds after he was in bed
        He fell back to sleep

        The next morning
        He had forgotten all about
        What had happened the night before

        But when night time came once again
        His thoughts somehow found their way back
        To remembering the fascinating episode of the night before

        He he turned out his bedroom light
        And sat in his favorite chair
        Thoughts danced in his head for a while
        "Suppose I went to check and see if my transistor is still down there" he
        said "I wonder what would happen"

        4. "Magic Transistor Radio"
        Time: 0:50

        He sat up in his open window
        Looking quietly down at the path
        A firefly flew in his room and flew right out again

        Down jumped the prince
        And he went again to find his radio

        (Magic transistor radio)
        (Glowing magic transistor radio)
        (Glowing magic transistor radio)
        As he made his way he could hear something once again
        (Glowing magic transistor radio)
        There was that transistor up on the same tree

        Then from inside of it came a strange voice

        5. "I'm The Pied Piper"
        Time: 3:35

        [Hello I'm the Pied Piper from the far away land of Night]
        [Nobody knows anything about my existence]
        [I only want to know kids]
        [Late at night when people are sleeping]
        [I go into their old radios and turn them into magic transistors]
        [And fly outside with them]
        [I come from such a far away land of Night]
        [That I'm fascinated with the funny music I hear on your radios]
        [You are the first to know of me]
        [You can't see me I'm hidden]
        [But you can see the green glow I make]
        [I heard you laugh last night]
        [I figured that you would be amused by me]
        [Listen to this]

        (Bow bow)
        (I'm the Pied Piper)
        (Bow bow bow bow bow)
        (In the radio)

        (Bow bow)
        (I'm the Pied Piper)
        (Bow bow bow bow bow)
        (In the radio)

        (Bow bow)
        (I'm the Pied Piper)
        (Bow bow bow bow bow)
        (In the radio)

        Then the prince heard something he never knew could be

        (Bow bow)
        (I'm the Pied Piper)
        (Bow bow bow bow bow)
        (In the radio)

        The hidden Pied Piper was laughing

        (Bow bow)
        (I'm the Pied Piper)
        (Bow bow bow bow bow)
        (In the radio)

        As the prince moved his head back and forth with the music going on

        (Bow bow)
        (I'm the Pied Piper)
        (Bow bow bow bow bow)
        (In the radio)

        When the music died down the Piper said that "every night

        (Bow bow)
        (I'm the Pied Piper)
        (Bow bow bow bow bow)
        (In the radio)

        After midnight if you leave your on your transistor radio

        (Bow bow)
        (I'm the Pied Piper)
        (Bow bow bow bow bow)
        (In the radio)

        I'll promise to bring more magic music to you

        (Bow bow)
        (I'm the Pied Piper)
        (Bow bow bow bow bow)
        (In the radio)

        No one" he said " will ever believe you so why tell of me to anyone?

        (Bow bow)
        (I'm the Pied Piper)
        (Bow bow bow bow bow)
        (In the radio)

        You are my only friend of night" said the Pied Piper "and I'll talk to
        you again some night"

        (Bow bow)
        (I'm the Pied Piper)
        (Bow bow bow bow bow)
        (In the radio)

        Then the radio was glowing no more
        As it fell into the hands of the fascinated prince
        He ran back amazed and he hopped right back into bed

        That night he dreamt all night
        Mostly about his radio and his friend the Pied Piper

        The prince did try what the Piper said to do
        But for weeks at night
        He heard nothing like the music of that magic night

        "That Pied Piper must have been joking" he said
        "There's nothing but Bach on this radio
        I'm gonna throw it back up in the attic for good"
        This he sat disbelieving the young prince so loud
        That two of his brothers overheard him
        The next day those two brothers took the radio from the attic and turned
        it on
        (Dom dom kingdom)
        There it was the music had to be from the Pied Piper himself

        (My radio is radiatin' through the)
        (Dom dom kingdom)
        (Through the misty night)
        (Through the misty night)

        (Dom dom kingdom)
        (My radio is radiatin' through the)
        (Dom dom kingdom)
        (Through the misty night)
        (Through the misty night)

        (Dom dom kingdom)
        The prince's sisters ran in their brother's room
        (My radio is radiatin' through the)
        (Dom dom kingdom)
        And they were all dancing and screaming with joy
        (Through the misty night)
        (Through the misty night)
        But the transistor was playing too loud

        And their mother heard it
        (Dom dom kingdom)
        "What are you doing there? What is that you're listening too?
        Give me that radio at once" she said

        6. "Radio King Dom"
        Time: 2:01

        A few days later the king and queen of the castle were invited to a ball
        As they were leaving that evening the queen said to the young prince
        Who was the eldest of the children
        "Take care of the other ones tonight
        And don't try to find that radio
        We have it hidden away
        We'll be home by midnight"
        And then she said "goodbye"

        The children's mother left
        And the party had begun
        And the children looked everywhere
        High and low
        Checking to see if they could find that transistor radio
        They couldn't find it they couldn't find it
        They looked upstairs and downstairs
        All through the castle and finally
        All of a sudden they heard a sound

        What is that sound is it possible
        Could it be the Pied Piper himself
        Coming out of the magic transistor radio
        Or was it just the wind whistling by the castle window

        No one knows if the mysterious Pied Piper of Night
        Was the one who came back to visit the princes and princesses again
        But if you have a transistor radio and the lights are all out some night
        Don't be very surprised if it turns to light green
        And the whirling magic sound of the Pied Piper comes to visit you

        (Bow bow)
        (I'm the Pied Piper)
        (Bow bow bow bow bow)
        (In the radio)

        (Bow bow)
        (I'm the Pied Piper)
        (Bow bow bow bow bow)
        (In the radio)

        (Bow bow)
        (I'm the Pied Piper)
        (Bow bow bow bow bow)
        (In the radio)




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