SUMMER IN PARADISE

        The Beach Boys

        Producer: Terry Melcher
        Released 1992
        Brother Entertainment BBR 727-2
        Album Archive entry
        Guitar tabs

        1. Hot Fun In The Summertime
        2. Surfin'
        3. Summer Of Love
        4. Island Fever
        5. Still Surfin'
        6. Slow Summer Dancin' (One Summer Night)
        7. Strange Things Happen
        8. Remember "Walking In The Sand"
        9. Lahaina Aloha
        10. Under The Boardwalk
        11. Summer In Paradise
        12. Forever

        1. "Hot Fun In The Summertime"

        Time: 3:28 Mijac Music BMI

        Released as a single in the summer of 1992

        Sylvester Stewart

         

        Hot fun in the summertime

        (Yeah bow bow bow)

        Hot fun in the summertime

        (Yeah yeah yeah)

         

        End of the spring

        And here she comes back

        (Hi hi hi hi) (Yeah)

        Those summer days those summer days

         

        That's when I had most of my fun back

        (Hi hi hi hi) (Yeah)

        Those summer days those summer days

        (Bow bow bow do doop)

         

        Aww we can bum bum where we want to

        (Bow bow bow do doop)

        Hey we're out of school

        (Bow bow bow do doop)

        County fair in the country side

        (Bow bow bow do doop)

        And everything is cool

        (Bow bow bow do doop)

         

        (Bow bow bow)

        (Hot fun in the summertime)

        We can do what we want to

        (Yeah bow bow bow)

        (Hot fun in the summertime)

        Out of school

        (Bow bow bow)

        (Hot fun in the summertime)

        We can do what we want to

         

        First day of fall and there she goes back

        (Bye bye bye bye) (yeah)

        Those summer days, those summer days

        (Bow bow bow do doop)

         

        Aww we can bum bum where we want to

        (Bow bow bow do doop)

        Hey we're out of school

        (Bow bow bow do doop)

        County fair in the country side

        (Bow bow bow do doop)

        And everything is cool

        (Bow bow bow do doop)

         

        (Bow bow bow)

        (Hot fun in the summertime)

        We can do what we want to

        (Yeah bow bow bow)

        (Hot fun in the summertime)

        Out of school

        (Bow bow bow)

        (Hot fun in the summertime)

        We can do what we want to

        Yeah yeah yeah

         

        (Bow bow bow do doop) (yeah)

        (Bow bow bow do doop) (yeah)

        (Bow bow bow do doop) (yeah)

        (Bow bow bow do doop) (yeah)

        Yeah yeah yeah what we want to

        (Hot fun in the summertime)

        (Bow bow bow do doop) (yeah)

        (Hot fun in the summertime)

        (Bow bow bow do doop) (yeah)

        (Hot fun in the summertime)

        (Bow bow bow do doop) (yeah)

        (Hot fun in the summertime)

        (Bow bow bow do doop) (yeah)

        (Hot fun in the summertime)

        (Bow bow bow do doop) (yeah)

        (Hot fun in the summertime)

        (Bow bow bow do doop) (yeah)

         

         

        2. "Surfin'"

        Time: 3:44 Guild Music Company BMI

        Brian Wilson/Mike Love

         

        Surfin' is the only life

        The only way for me.

        Now surf, surf (surfin') with me

         

        Bom Bom Dit Di Dit Dip (surfin')

        Bom Bom Dit Di Dit Dip (surfin')

        Bom Bom Dit Di Dit Dip (surfin')

        Bom Bom Dit Di Dit Dip (surfin')

        Bom Bom Dit Di Dit Dip (surfin')

        Bom Bom Dit Di Dit Dip (surfin')

        Bom Bom Dit Di Dit Dip (surfin')

        Bom Bom Dit Di Dit Dip (surfin')

         

        Surfin' is the only life

        The only way for me.

        Now surf, surf (surfin')

         

        Bom Bom Dit Di Dit Dip

        Bom Bom Dit Di Dit Dip

        Bom Bom Dit Di Dit Dip

        Bom Bom Dit Di Dit Dip

         

        I got up this mornin' turned on my radio

        I was checkin' on the surfin' scene

        To see if I would go

        And when the DJ tells me that the surfin' is fine

        That's when I know my baby and I will have a good time

         

        Surfin' is the only life

        The only way for me.

        Now surf, surf (surfin') with me

         

        From the early morning to the middle of the night

        Any time the surf is up the time is right

        And when the surf is down and things get lazy

        We'll do the Surfer's Stomp that's when the surfers go crazy

         

        Surfin' is the only life

        The only way for me.

        Now surf, surf (surfin') with me

         

        Now the dawn is breaking and we really gotta go

        But we'll be back here very soon that you better know

        You know my surfer knots are rising and my board is losing wax

        (Yeah yeah hey now)

        But that won't stop me baby cause you know I'm coming back

         

        Surfin' is the only life

        The only way for me.

        Now surf, surf (surfin') with me

         

        Bom Bom Dit Di Dit Dip (surfin')

        Bom Bom Dit Di Dit Dip (surfin')

        Bom Bom Dit Di Dit Dip (surfin')

        Bom Bom Dit Di Dit Dip (surfin')

        Bom Bom Dit Di Dit Dip (surfin')

        Bom Bom Dit Di Dit Dip (surfin')

        Bom Bom Dit Di Dit Dip (surfin')

        Bom Bom Dit Di Dit Dip (surfin')

        Bom Bom Dit Di Dit Dip (surfin')

         

        Surfin' is the only life the only way for me

        Now come on pretty baby and surf with me

         

        Bom Bom Dit Di Dit Dip (surfin')

        Bom Bom Dit Di Dit Dip (surfin')

        Bom Bom Dit Di Dit Dip (surfin')

        Bom Bom Dit Di Dit Dip (surfin')

        Bom Bom Dit Di Dit Dip (surfin')

        Bom Bom Dit Di Dit Dip (surfin')

        Bom Bom Dit Di Dit Dip (surfin')

        Bom Bom Dit Di Dit Dip (surfin')

        Bom Bom Dit Di Dit Dip (surfin')

         

         

        3. "Summer Of Love"

        Time: 2:50 Clairaudient/Daywin Music, Inc. BMI

        Mike Love/Terry Melcher

         

        I can't wait til summer (yeah)

        Cause it's gonna be a summer of love

        Hey now (well it's a love thing)

         

        People all around the world in every nation

        Like to get together for some excitations

        If you're a girl appreciates her recreation

        Why don't you let me take you on a love vacation

         

        Yeah I'll take you to the movies

        But I'm no fool (wah wah oooo)

        First I'll get you on the beach

        Or in a swimming pool

        Doing unto others is the Golden Rule

        But doing it with you would be so

        Very cool

         

        Girls are always ready for a summer of love

        Goin' out and lookin' for love (girls are always ready)

        Girls are always ready for a summer of love (sum sum summer summer of love)

        Goin' out and lookin' for love (sum sum summer summer of love)

         

        I can't wait til summer (yeah)

        Cause it's gonna be a summer of love

        Hey now (well it's a love thing)

         

        Everytime the weather starts to gettin' hotter

        Don't worry about it toos your clothes and hit the water

        We'll be California dreaminin' bay watchin' everyday

        Just off the Malibu surfin' U. S. A.

         

        Now no girl ever wants to leave their

        Love back home (wah wah oooo)

        So if you miss him baby

        Call him on the phone

        But make it quick

        We're almost in a party zone

         

        Cause summer days and nights

        Aren't meant to spend alone

         

        Girls are always ready for a summer of love

        Goin' out and lookin' for love (girls are always ready)

        Girls are always ready for a summer of love (sum sum summer summer of love)

        Goin' out and lookin' for love (sum sum summer summer of love)

         

        I can't wait til summer (yeah)

        Cause it's gonna be a summer of love

        Hey now (well it's a love thing)

         

        Now summer is a time when there're no strings attached

        But we could get together if you com on back

        I'd like to tell you if it's any satisfaction

        You'll always be my summer seasons main attraction

         

        Girls are always ready for a summer of love

        Goin' out and lookin' for love (girls are always ready)

        Girls are always ready for a summer of love (sum sum summer summer of love)

        Goin' out and lookin' for love (sum sum summer summer of love)

         

        I can't wait til summer (yeah)

        Cause it's gonna be a summer of love

        Hey now (well it's a love thing)

         

         

        4. "Island Fever"

        Time: 3:26 Daywin Music, Inc./Clairaudient BMI

        Terry Melcher/Mike Love

         

        Do you ever get the feelin' that you got to get away

        It's a sympton of the fever all across the U. S. A.

        My family doctor told me "son the flu is what you have"

        But I know it's island fever and I got it real bad

         

        Hey doc I need a pain reliever

        (Oooo I got it bad) I got the island fever

        I got it bad I got the island fever

        (Oooo I got it bad) I got the island fever

         

        My baby caught it and I'm not quite sure how

        (Oooo I got it bad) I got the island fever

        She might have got it from her travel brochure now

        (Oooo I got it bad)

         

        (Bow bow bow ooo)

        Come on baby wouldn't it be nice (Bow bow bow ooo)

        If I could take you down to paradise (Bow bow bow ooo)

        Sweet little mama gotta get away (Bow bow bow ooo)

        Your daddy knows a little hideaway (Bow bow bow ooo)

         

        Hey girl I got some good advice

        Drive your dad mad and

        Make him take you down to paradise

         

        I've been pickin' up a love vibration

        (Oooo I got it bad) I got the island fever

        Comin' from a little island nation

        (Oooo I got it bad) I got the island fever

        For my own self-preservation

        (Oooo I got it bad) I got the island fever

        Better make a quick reservation

        (Oooo I got it bad)

         

        (Bow bow bow ooo)

        Come on baby wouldn't it be nice (Bow bow bow ooo)

        If I could take you down to paradise (Bow bow bow ooo)

        Sweet little mama gotta get away (Bow bow bow ooo)

        Your daddy knows a little hideaway (Bow bow bow ooo)

         

        Hey girl I got some good advice

        Drive your dad mad and

        Make him take you down to paradise

         

        (Bow bow bow ooo)

        Come on baby wouldn't it be nice (Bow bow bow ooo)

        If I could take you down to paradise (Bow bow bow ooo)

        Sweet little mama gotta get away (Bow bow bow ooo)

        Your daddy knows a little hideaway (Bow bow bow ooo)

         

         

        5. "Still Surfin'"

        Time: 4:02 Clairaudient/Daywin Music, Inc. BMI

        Mike Love/Terry Melcher

         

        He used to ride the sidewalks in a landlocked town

        A solitary surfer still he got around

        He had his favorite spots now

        Where the best rides could be found

         

        With posters on his wall from "Surfer" magazine

        His room looked like a shrine to the surfin' scene

        Go to Hawaii out of high school was his big time college dream

        (That's where the girls are)

         

        Did you ever wonder what happened to surfer Joe

        He up and took a trawler down to Mexico

        With a pretty senorita we both used to know

         

        You can see him catch a wave in the mornin' light

        And sometimes you can find him on his board at night

        A silouette on water as the sun dips outta sight

         

        He's still surfin'

        (Still surfin')

        He's still surfin'

        (Still surfin')

         

        You'll catch  him on a wave on his way to class

        Then be back there after school on his daylight glass

        He's still surfin'

        (Still surfin')

        He's still surfin'

        (Still surfin')

         

        Surfers always love them summer days

        With a board in the water rollin' with the waves

        He's still surfin'

         

        He's always been a surfer since the early days

        Spendin' the summer searchin' for that perfect wave

        He and his surfin' senorita never seem to age

         

        He doesn't do a whole lot with his law degree

        They thought about a major oceanography

        But he does a lot of thinkin' 'bout how to save the sea

        (That's where the waves are)

         

        Things up north were gettin' kinda out of hand

        So he got a break to see the ride on the sand

        With his little mama seated in a surfer's never never land

         

        You can see him catch a wave in the mornin' light

        And sometimes you can find him on his board at night

        A silouette on water as the sun dips outta sight

         

        He's still surfin'

        (Still surfin')

        He's still surfin'

        (Still surfin')

         

        You'll catch  him on a wave on his way to class

        Then be back there after school on his daylight glass

         

         

        He's still surfin'

        (Still surfin')

        He's still surfin'

        (Still surfin')

         

        Surfers always love them summer days

        With a board in the water rollin' with the waves

        He's still surfin'

         

        In the mornin light he still surfin'

        On his board at night he's still surfin'

        In the summer days he's still surfin'

        Rollin' with the waves he's still surfin'

         

         

        6. "Slow Summer Dancin' (One Summer Night)"

        Time: 3:23 Bruce Johnston Publishing BMI/PSO Limited ACSAP

        Bruce Johnston/Danny Webb

         

        I'll set the stage while she's still dancing

        I'll make the music soft and slow

        Then I'll turn down the lights

        Make things just right

        For every slow song that we know

         

        Over and over again

        One summer night

        (Do do do)

         

        We fell in love

        One summer night

        I held you tight

        (One summer, one summer)

        You and I

        (One summer, one summer)

        Under the moon for love

        (Ooo one summer, one summer)

         

        We'll spin around this room together

        I'll treat my angel really nice

        We'll fall in love, we'll fall forever

        Thank God for lazy summer nights

         

        Over and over again

        One summer night

        (Do do do)

         

        (One summer, one summer)

        I kissed your lips

        (One summer, one summer)

        One summer night

        (One summer, one summer)

        I held you close

        (One summer, one summer)

        You and I

        (One summer, one summer)

        Under the moon of love

        (Ooo one summer, one summer)

        (One summer, one summer)

        One summer night

         

        (One summer, one summer)

        (One summer, one summer)

        (One summer, one summer)

        (One summer, one summer)

        (One summer, one summer)

        (One summer, one summer)

        One summer night

        (One summer, one summer)

        Under the moon of love

         

        (Ooo one summer, one summer)

        Under the moon of love

         

        (Ooo one summer, one summer)

        Under the moon of

        Love

         

         

        7. "Strange Things Happen"

        Time: 4:43 Daywin Music, Inc./Clairaudient BMI

        Terry Melcher/Mike Love

         

        She believes in God

        And karma too

        Paranormal powers

        You know some people do

        Got Scorpio risin'

        Uh huh

        Tell you what's in your stars

         

        She was down in Rio

        Turn the heads of state

        Got 'em into makin'

        This planet a better place

        On Copacabana

        Uh huh

        Oh yeah she radiate better go meditate

         

        Everytime I touch my baby

        Strange things happen

        Strange things happen

        Everytime I touch my baby

        Strange things happen to me

        Strange things happen

         

        Oh ohhh ohhhh

        Oh oh strange things happen

        Everytime I touch my baby

        Strange things happen to me

         

        Met a pshycic reader

        With a crystal ball

        Had a vision

        Said we could have it all

        I caught her gazin'

        Uh huh

        At our destiny cosmically

         

        Everytime I touch my baby

        Strange things happen

        Oh ohhh ohhhh

        Oh oh strange things happen

        Everytime I touch my baby

        Strange things happen to me

         

        Strange things happen

        Oh ohhh ohhhh

        Oh oh strange things happen

        Everytime I touch my baby

        Strange things happen to me

         

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        8. "Remember "Walking In The Sand""

        Time: 3:29 EMI Unart Catalog, Inc./Tender Tunes/Trio Music Co.,

        Inc./Screen Gems-EMI Music, Inc. BMI

        George Morton

         

        Remember

        Remember

        Remember

        Remember

        "Walking In The Sand"

         

        Seems like the other day

        My baby went away

        She went away across the sea

         

        It's been two years or so

        Since I saw my baby go

        And then this letter came for me

         

        Oh it said that we were through

        She's found somebody new

        Oh baby's gone what can I do

         

        Remember

        Remember

        Remember

        Remember

        "Walking In The Sand"

         

        (Remember)

        Hey I remember

        ("Walking In The Sand")

        "Walking In The Sand"

        (Remember remember)

        ("Walking In The Sand")

        Walking hand in hand

        ("Walking In The Sand")

        "Walking In The Sand"

        (Remember remember)

        ("Walking In The Sand")

        Walking hand in hand

        ("Walking In The Sand")

         

        Ahhhhh

        Ahhhhhhh

        Ahhhhhhhhh

        Ahhhhhhhhh

         

        I want to know

        What ever happened to

        The little girl I once knew

        She said that she'd be true

         

        (Remember)

        (Remember)

        Remember

        Hey I remember

        ("Walking In The Sand")

        "Walking In The Sand"

        (Remember remember)

        ("Walking In The Sand")

        Walking hand in hand

        (Remember remember)

        ("Walking In The Sand")

        "Walking In The Sand"

        (Remember remember)

        ("Walking In The Sand")

        Walking hand in hand

        (Remember)

        Remember

        ("Walking In The Sand")

         

        Remember

        Remember

        "Walking In The Sand"

         

        Remember

        Remember

        "Walking In The Sand"

         

        Remember

        Remember

        "Walking In The Sand"

         

        Remember

        Remember

        "Walking In The Sand"

         

         

        9. "Lahaina Aloha"

        Time: 3:43 Daywin Music, Inc./Clairaudient BMI

        Terry Melcher/Mike Love

         

        Where the sea breeze

        Sways the palm trees

        Paradise awaits

        And so does she

         

        Reliving love

        That was like a romance

        From a page in history

         

        It was the last place

        That he stopped at

        On the way back to his boat

         

        She was dancing

        Met his glancing

        Like they say

        "It was all she wrote"

         

        You know I want to

        But I can't stay (bye bye)

        Girl you know I'm gonna sail away (sail away)

        When the wind comes up

        And when the sun goes down

        I'll say "goodbye" to this old island town

         

        Out on the water where the full moon shines

        You and Lahaina always on my mind

         

        They left the dance floor

        So they could spend more

        Precious time near the water side

         

        It wasn't wrong

        And it wasn't right

        They were two ships

        Passing in the night

         

        You know I want to

        But I can't stay (bye bye)

        Girl you know I'm gonna sail away (sail away)

        When the wind comes up

        And when the sun goes down

        I'll say "goodbye" to this old island town

         

        I think about you when the full moon shines

        Lahaina always on my mind

         

        You know I want to

        But I can't stay (bye bye)

        Girl you know I'm gonna sail away (sail away)

        When the wind comes up

        And when the sun goes down

        I'll say "goodbye" to this old island town

        I think about you when the full moon shines

        Lahaina always on my mind

         

        You know I want to

        But I can't stay (bye bye)

        Girl you know I'm gonna sail away (sail away)

        When the wind comes up

        And when the sun goes down

        I'll say "goodbye" to this old island town

         

        I think about you when the full moon shines

        Lahaina always on my mind

         

         

        10. "Under The Boardwalk"

        Time: 4:06 Alley Music Corp./Trio Music Co. BMI

        Different version released as a single in the summer of 1994

        Arthur Resnick/Kenny Young/Mike Love

         

        Boardwalk (I wanna take you girl under the)

        Boardwalk (I'm gonna take you girl under the)

        Boardwalk (I wanna take you girl under the)

        Boardwalk

         

        Ah when the sun beats down and burns the tar up on the roof

        And the street's so hot you're hoping this whole town is fireproof

         

        Under the boardwalk

        Down by the sea (oh yeah)

        I'm on a blanket with my baby

        That's where I'll be

         

        And when the sun goes down

        We'll take a walk along the strand

        And as the tide goes out

        We'll write "I love you" right there in the sand

         

        Oh I want to go

        Under the boardwalk

        Down by the sea (oh yeah)

        I'm on a blanket with my baby

        That's where I'll be

         

        Under the boardwalk

        Under the boardwalk

         

        Oh oh ohhhh

        Under the boardwalk (yeah)

        Down by the sea (oh yeah)

        I'm on a blanket with my baby

        That's where I'll be

         

        And when the moon is out

        And it's finally cooling down

        Don't have to look too far

        Because my girl and I just might be found

         

        Oh oh ohhhh

        Under the boardwalk (yeah)

        Down by the sea (oh yeah)

        On a blanket with my baby

        That's where I'll be

         

        Ooo I'm on a blanket with my pretty baby

        Just you and me

         

        Boardwalk (I wanna take you girl under the)

        Boardwalk (I'm gonna take you girl under the)

        Boardwalk (I wanna take you girl under the)

        Boardwalk (I'm gonna take you girl under the)

        Boardwalk (I wanna take you girl under)

         

         

        11. "Summer In Paradise"

        Time: 3:51 Clairaudient/Daywin Music, Inc. BMI

        Mike Love/Terry Melcher/Craig Fall

         

        Way back when well our master plan

        Was havin' fun fun fun as America's band

        Well we came out rockin' with Rhonda and Barbara Ann

        Singin' of surf and sand

         

        Now when we look back over all the fun we had

        If our lifestyle's over now it sure is sad

        We gotta get back to livin' without a care

        Give me sunshine water and an ozone layer

         

        Paradise is a state of mind

        Where Mother Nature nurtures and man is kind

        We need a change now wouldn't it be nice

        If we could bring back summer

         

        Get us back our summer

        Summer in paradise

        (Paradise)

        Summer in paradise (paradise)

         

        They chop down the forests

        And in their haste leave a trail of destruction

        And toxic waste is leavin' no one safe

        In their home or their habitat

        Can't let it go like that

         

        Too much consumption and too much greed

        When you consider all the people

        That are livin' in need

        Interdependence in this world is a natural fact

        And we're all under attack

         

        It's the eve of destruction or so they say

        But mankind doesn't have to go that way

        If we all get together we can make things right

        And we can bring back summer

         

        Get us back our summer

        Summer in paradise

        (Paradise)

        Summer in paradise (paradise)

        Summer in paradise (paradise)

        Summer in paradise

         

        Surfers recycle now don't you know

        Like evryone from California to Kokomo

        We're gonna keep on rockin'

        And raisin' world consciousness

        We gotta fix this mess

         

        Looked in the future and what I saw

        Was a world in harmony with natural law

        There's trouble now but it will be alright if we can

         

        Bring back summer

        Get us back our summer

        Summer in paradise

         

        (Paradise)

        Summer in paradise (paradise)

        Summer in paradise (paradise)

        Summer in paradise (paradise)

        Summer in paradise

         

        (Paradise)

        Summer in paradise (paradise)

        Summer in paradise

         

        (Paradise)

        Summer in paradise (paradise)

        Summer in paradise

         

        (Paradise)

        Summer in paradise (paradise)

        Summer in paradise

         

         

        12. "Forever"

        Time: 2:43 Brother Publishing Co. BMI

        B side with "Cool Cool Water"

        Dennis Wilson/Gregg Jakobson

         

        If every word I said

        Could make you laugh

        I'd talk forever (together my love)

        I ask the sky just what we had

        Mmm It shone forever (together my love my my my my my my my my my my my

        my my)

        If the song I sing to you

        Could fill your heart with joy

        I'd sing forever (together my love my my my my)

        Forever

        Forever

        I've been so happy loving you

         

        Do do do do do do do do do together my love

         

        Let the love I have for you

        Live in your heart

        And beat forever (together my love)

        Forever

        Forever

        I've been so happy loving you

         

        Baby just let me sing it my baby

        I wanna be singin' my baby

        Baby baby baby my baby

        I wanna be singin'

        I wanna be singin' my baby

        Oh oh oh oh

        My my my my my my

         

        So I'm goin' away

        Mmm but not forever

        Na na na na

        I gotta love you anyway

         

        Forever




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