Surf's Up (Live/1973)

This song was written by Brian Wilson and his friend Van Dyke Parks, and Brian played it once on a TV show, a Leonard Bernstein special, and Leonard Bernstein said that it was one of the best songs ever to come out of rock music. So, cousin Carl here is gonna sing the song that Brian and Van Dyke wrote, called Surf's Up

A diamond necklace played the pawn

Hand in hand some drummed along, oh

To a handsome man and baton

(Bygone, bygone)

A blind class aristocracy

Back through the opera glass you see

The pit and the pendulum drawn

(Bygone, bygone)

Columnated ruins domino

Canvass the town and brush the backdrop

Are you sleeping?

Hung velvet overtaken me

Dim chandelier awaken me

To a song dissolved in the dawn

(Bygone, bygone)

The music hall a costly bow

The music all is lost for now

To a muted trumpeter swan

(Bygone, bygone)

Columnated ruins domino

Canvass the town and brush the backdrop

Are you sleeping, Brother John?

Dove nested towers the hour was strike the street quicksilver moon

Carriage across the fog Two-Step to lamp lights cellar tune

The laughs come hard in Auld Lang Syne

The glass was raised, the fired rose, the fullness of the wine, the dim last toasting

While at port adieu or die

A choke of grief heart hardened I

Beyond belief a broken man too tough to cry

Surf's Up, mhh-mhh-mhh, aboard a tidal wave

Come about hard and join the young and often spring you gave

I heard the word

Wonderful thing

A children's song

(Child, child, child, child, child)

(A child is the father of the man)

(Child, child, child, child, child)

(A child is the father of the man)

A children's song

(Child, child, child, child, child)

(A child is the father of the man)

Have you listened as they played

(Child, child, child, child, child)

(A child is the father of the man)

Their song is love

(Child, child, child, child, child)

(A child is the father of the man)

And the children know the way

(Child, child, child, child, child)

(A child is the father of the man)

(That’s why the child)

(Child, child, child, child, child)

(A child is the father of the man)

(Child, child, child, child, child)

(A child is the father of the man)

(Thats why the child)

(Child, child, child, child, child)

(A child is the father of the man)

Thank you

Carl Wilson