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Surfs Up Tab

by Brian Wilson


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                         BRIAN WILSON - Surf's Up
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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. 



A diamond necklace played the pawn
Hand in hand some drummed along, oh
/
To a handsome man and baton

A blind class aristocracy
Back through the opera glass you see
/
The pit and the pendulum drawn

                     
   Columnated ruins  do  mi  no
                                 
   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

The music hall a costly bow
The music all is lost for now

To a muted trumperter swan

                     
   Columnated ruins  do  mi  no
                                 
   Canvass the town and brush the backdrop
        D/A               D [* read note at end]
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
                                   F9add  
The fullness of the wine, the dim last toast- ing
                
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
/
   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  



             
  A children's song
                        
Have you listened as they played
            
Their song is love
                        
And the children know the way
             
  A children's song
                        
Have you listened as they played
            
Their song is love
                        
And the children know the way

  
 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!