Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942 in Inglewood, California) is an American singer-songwriter, producer, and musician, best known for being the principal songwriter and co-lead singer for The Beach Boys, co-founded with brothers Carl and Dennis. Once known for his iconic falsetto, much of Brian's most well-known work is tinged with melancholy and existentialism. Due to his unorthodox approach to composition, arrangement, and recording, Brian
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------- BRIAN WILSON - Surf's Up ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabbed by: Dabarro Email: [email protected]
Tuning: Standard
Surprised by the fact that there's no tab for this beautiful song in the site I put myself to work on it. I use a MIDI file I found around to figure out the notes, since I can't read sheet music. Bare in mind that this song is played on piano and many of the chords are not "guitar-friendly" ones.
Gm7/D A diamond necklace played the pawn Hand in hand some drummed along, oh Dm7/G To a handsome man and baton Gm7/D A blind class aristocracy Back through the opera glass you see Dm7/G The pit and the pendulum drawn
BbGm7F/CCD/C Columnated ruins do mi no G/DA Canvass the town and brush the backdrop D/A Are you sleeping?
Gm7/D Hung velvet overtaken me Dim chandelier awaken me Dm7/G To a song dissolved in the dawn Gm7/D The music hall a costly bow The music all is lost for now Dm7/G To a muted trumperter swan
BbGm7F/CCD/C Columnated ruins do mi no G/DA Canvass the town and brush the backdrop D/ADEm7Gm7/FD/F# Are you sleeping, Brother John?
G#6 Dove nested towers the hour was Cm/Bb Strike the street quicksilver moon G#6 Carriage across the fog Cm/Bb Two-Step to lamp lights cellar tune
Dm7Gm7CF The laughs come hard in Auld Lang Syne Dm7 The glass was raised, the fired rose Gm7C F9add F The fullness of the wine, the dim last toast- ing Dm7Gm7CF While at port adieu or die Dm7 A choke of grief heart hardened I Gm7CF Beyond belief a broken man too tough to cry
G#6 Surf's Up Cm/Bb Aboard a tidal wave G#6 Come about hard and join Cm/Bb The young and often spring you gave Fm/C I heard the word Cm Wonderful thing Fm7CmBbCm A children's song
FmCm A children's song BbCm Have you listened as they played FmCm Their song is love BbCm And the children know the way FmCm A children's song BbCm Have you listened as they played FmCm Their song is love BbCm And the children know the way
Fm A Child.
*** NOTE: In that part, at the end of 'brother John' there's a descending arrangement over the D chord that goes A G F# (those are notes, not chords). It can be played with an inversion of D, like this one: xx0235, a Dsus4 and a regular D. That way you have the descending bit on your high e string. So, that's it, enjoy!