Chords for Beach Boys - American Music Awards 1988 With Brian Wilson

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The Beach Boys, yeah, I tell you anytime [G] you say that [Db] name anywhere on this planet
Immediately you're transported [N] to a sunny California coastline.
Oh
Baby, and remember those songs we all remember all the tunes when I'll especially remember be in my room
You remember that one boy?
I remember it was at a friend's house at a basement party and we were downstairs
I was slow dancing to it and it was the first song that I ever rubbed up against a girl to boy
_ _ Hard to forget those songs remember surfer girl.
That was the first time that a girl ever rubbed me back
So _ ladies and gentlemen, please join me all of us here tonight and everybody in the viewing audience
And on in honor of California girls everywhere as we present the award of merit to the Beach Boys _
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_ [Am] Hey, _ _ [F] _ _ [D] _
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thank you guys, thank you you know
It's been about 30 years since Brian and I were
Chased out of the music room at Hawthorne High School for singing for a freshman harmonies.
Remember that Brian?
And got a little something to say there
Okay, I'm gonna read something
_ We want to thank the American Music Awards Committee
_ And _ _ our fans tonight on a summer weekend in 1961 the guys and I got a bright idea
We were going to write a song
My parents were going away and they left this money for food
The minute they were gone.
We took the food money and use it for musical instruments by Sunday night when my folks came home
We were very hungry
But we had written a song called surfing who could have known that 27 years and 52 albums later
We'd be standing before you receiving this very great honor.
We're proud and very grateful
I only wish that my younger brother Dennis could be with us tonight.
We miss him very much
Yeah over the years the Beach Boys have been in style and the Beach Boys have been out of style and they've been in style again _ _
But what's kept me going is the same thing that got me to write surfing all those years ago
I wanted to write joyful music that made other people feel good
Music that helps and heals because I believe that music is God's voice
Once again, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts and we're going to do our best to keep sending out those good vibrations
Love and mercy _ _ _ _
_ _ Thank the American people
Mr.
Mrs.
Reagan
Thank you very much the fat boys for wiping us out
Everybody and we want to thank Dick Clark to you guy.
He's one of the best
[F] Guys in the [N] world to have us up here like this and and and we want to thank Dick for staying so young all of these years _ _ _
_ _ Join this 1964 clip of the Beach Boys playing and singing
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It's [Bb] okay
Fuck [Eb] off the USA _
Then [Bb] everybody be sunny [Eb] Like California _
You think [Ab] we're underpaid
We're a team [Eb] of two
Of bushy bushy blonde hair and beads
Serving the USA
You can't consider them [Gm] nothing
[Bb] Outside, outside USA
[Eb] Countryside, countryside USA
You and me did [Bb] it
Inside, outside USA [Cm] Countryside, countryside
All over [Ab] Manhattan Countryside, countryside
You and [Eb] me did it
Inside, outside [Ab] USA
Everybody's [Bb] gone to the USA [Cm] Inside
_ We'll all be cutting [Bb] out
[G] We'll all be [Eb] getting feet
We'll all be getting feet
We'll all be cutting out
[Bb] We'll all be getting [Eb] _ _ feet
We'll [Ab] all be gone by the summer, [Eb] we're on the far end of space.
[C] Tell the teachers [Bb] to learn, [Cm] we're in the USA. _
We're in the streets [Bb] of New York.
Outside, outside of the USA.
The American [Eb] Music Award brought to you by
[Bb] The makers of Snickers [Eb] Bar, Quiks Cookie Bars, and M&M's Chocolate Candies.
[Ab] Allstate, your home auto and life insurance.
You're in [Eb] good hands with Allstate.
And lifted [Bb] with its quality line of fine soups and [Cm] teas.
We're in the USA.
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_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [Ab] Eastern Airlines, where the passenger way to [Eb] free travel just [Ab] got three times faster.
Please wear a provided travel arrangement with a special [Eb] telecast.
Eastern, we've got your ticket to triple mileage.
Everybody's in [Bb] New Orleans.
[Eb] Southern U.S..A. Does [Bb] everybody have a home [G] across the [Eb] USA? _ Then [Bb] everybody deserves like [C] [Eb] California A's. If you see them wearing [Ab] those baggy, [Eb] marachi sounders, too. [Db] A [Bb] bushy, bushy, bond hair, too. [Cm] Surfing USA. [Eb] You'll catch a flippin' [Bb] message high on time. That [Eb] you're a county minor. _ _ [C] I'm Ted Koppel. Later on Nightline, a black FBI agent who's been the object of harassment, humiliation, [Ab] allegedly even death threats. Not [Ebm] from organized [Gm] crime, but from [Eb] within the FBI. [D] This is Charles Gibson. And Mary Hart. Tomorrow on Good Morning America, we'll talk with some of the winners of the American Music Awards. Plus a visit with actor Kevin Kline. Later in the week, Dabney Coleman [Eb] on Good Morning America. [Gb] We're back in [Bb] Antarctica. For the [Gb] American Music [Eb] Awards, this is Charles Gibson. Well I'll be going for the [Ab] summer. We're on [Eb] safari to stay. Tell the teachers [Bb] that I am from here. [Cm] Surfing USA. _ _ _