I dig a French bikini on Hawaiian island dolls
by a palm tree in the sand.

She'll have fun, fun, fun
'Til her daddy takes the T-bird away.

Key Largo,
Montego
Baby why don't we go?

Ba, Ba, Ba, Ba, Barbara Ann

There's one more thing
I got the pink slip, Daddy!

They're funny because it's about the cook stealing your grits and corn. Seriously. What can be better than that?

This line is funny because people's first thoughts when they hear these lyrics today is likely to be 'oral sex on Southern girls', but back when the song was recorded (1960's), it would not have been taken in that context at all.

Early Take, available on Smiley Smile album, except for the verses, this is the only lyric in the whole song

This unfortunately is the chorus/refrain and is repeated 6 or 7 times _ What? They thought I wouldn't get the words the second time?

It would have been so easy to move the word 'along' so it would become 'take my love along with you,' which would then rhyme with 'nothing could go wrong with you.' Just a mistake during the recording session?

The word 'fine' doesn't exactly rhyme with the word 'time'.

At the end of the Beachboys Christmas album, there is a message spoken by Dennis Wilson while Auld Lang Syne is being sung. It includes the above phrase which is very redundant. If you are hearing these words, obviously you're listening to the album. He should have left this out, especially since he goofed up on the word happen.

What does that have to do with a drive-in movie?

Walt Disney

Huarachi sandals

Ford Thunderbird

"Wouldn't It Be Nice" was a 1966 top five hit and was from the Beach Boys' historic and very inventive lp, "Pet Sounds". "Pet Sounds" lp by many rock critics is considered the start of modern day rock, since "Pet Sounds" very greatly influenced the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" lp a year later.

"Barbara Ann" was a #3 party and girls (of course) hit for the Beach Boys from the winter of 1966.

Should be -- "My buddies and I are getting really well known--" They're really well known for the way they butcher the English language.

Narrabeen, Australia is commonly mispelt on web as Narabine, Australia when refering to Beach Boy lyrics for Surfin USA

Twenty years before David Lee Roth's Top Ten version (1985), the original version of "California Girls" (1965) was a #2 worldwide hit (despite it's obvious jingoism preference for the women or girls of the United States) for the Beach Boys and would usher in the time period when the Beach Boys would eclipse the Four Seasons as the most popular worldwide American group and the second most popular group of the 1960's after the Beatles. Upabove I have transcribed the first four verses and the first singing of the main chorus. In the first three verses we have shoutouts to various regions (the five main ones) of the United States (the East Coast, the South, the Mid-west, the North and the West Coast). In the third verse is a shoutout to the 50th state of Hawaii, and some might say the country of France with the mention of the french bikini that was becoming very popular worldwide at the time this song was a major hit. In the chorus is the shoutout to the state of California. And in the fourth verse is a shoutout to the United States (as the States).

I live in Hawaii, and it's not "Wai-ah-mee-ah" Bay. It's "Wy-may-ah"!

In order to make a rhyme with USA, they draw out the "-ia" at the end of "California" to make it two full syllables, one rhyming with "eye" and then the last rhyming with "weigh".

One of the many reasons 'Pet Sounds' wasn't that successful in 1966 was because there were so many depressing songs or upbeat yet depressing songs. This song has a great bass solo, a heavy horn section, but this song is about a woman who left this man and he tells his friend to be careful.

I'm gettin' bugged strivin' up and down the same old drip