The Beach Boys – Surfs Up (Guitar)

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Chords

[Verse 1]
Gm7/D
A diamond necklace played the pawn

Gm7/D
Hand in hand some drummed along, oh

Dm7/G
To a handsome man and baton

Gm7/D
A blind class aristocracy

Gm7/D
Back through the opera glass you see

Dm7/G
The pit and the pendulum drawn

Bb      Gm7         F/C C7 D/C
   Columnated ruins  do-mi-no

 G/D                               A/G
   Canvass the town and brush the backdrop

         D/A
Are you sleeping?
[Verse 2]
Gm7/D
Hung velvet overtaken me

Gm7/D
Dim chandelier awaken me

Dm7/G
To a song dissolved in the dawn

Gm7/D
The music hall a costly bow

Gm7/D
The music all is lost for now

Dm7/G
To a muted trumpeter swan

Bb      Gm7         F/C C7 D/C
   Columnated ruins  do-mi-no

G/D                               A/G
   Canvass the town and brush the backdrop

        D/A              D  
Are you sleeping, Brother John?
Em7 Gm/F D/F# [Bridge]
Ab6
   Dove nested towers the hour was

Eb/Bb
Strike the street quicksilver moon

Ab6
   Carriage across the fog

    Eb/Bb
Two-step to lamp lights cellar tune

    Dm7                 Gm7/C  C7  F
The laughs come hard in Auld Lang Syne

    Dm7
The glass was raised, the fired rose

    Gm7/C            C7                Edim  F
The fullness of the wine, the dim last toast-ing

Dm7           Gm7/C C7  F 
While at port adieu or die

  Dm7
A choke of grief heart hardened I

Gm7/C            C7             F
Beyond belief a broken man too tough to cry
[Outro]
Ab6
   Surf's Up

Eb/Bb
   Aboard a tidal wave

Ab6
   Come about hard and join

    Eb/Bb
The young and often spring you gave

  Dbmaj7
I heard the word

   Cm7
Wonderful thing

  Fm7             Cm7/F  Bb  Cm7
A children's song  

Fm7  Cm7/F  Bb  Cm7
(Ad lib)