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Hello fellow smileysmilers! Back in February of this year, there was a thread that was posted on here that asked a few questions concerning the lyrics to Surf's Up, and that thread gave me the idea to create a singular comprehensive resource which chronicles the history, meanings, and evolution of the song's lyrics over time. There have been many threads on this board (and other places on the internet too) over the years that have discussed various aspects of Surf's Up's lyrics, but to my knowledge no one had ever attempted to compile a singular resource that chronicles all of the key information about the lyrics, their meanings, their history, etc. in it. So I recently created a new video which attempts to do exactly that:

https://youtu.be/PkBZP96NoAw (https://youtu.be/PkBZP96NoAw)

I hope people enjoy this and find it interesting. Even I learned a few new things about the lyrics which I hadn't known before!

Great deep dive video into all things Surf's Up.

Really great video. It was funny to hear my name come up - for what it's worth, if the case wasn't already solid enough, one of Frank Holmes' 1966 illustrations is subtitled "diamond necklace play the pawn" (present tense), and he was working first-hand from the source.

Need to point something out RE Jack Rieley - in the 1996 email you allude to, Jack emphatically said that none of the other members of the band (including Brian) were responsible for the extra couplet. He didn't make a claim that it took 7 people to write. That isn't something he ever said. The heavy implication of the message is that Jack himself wrote the words, but he couldn't outright say it for obvious reasons. That, I think, is completely believable, measured up on the Jack Rieley believability scale - more so than them having come from Brian.


I'll also challenge "adieu or die" - it's a nice idea, and I'm sure a somewhat intentional pun, but Brian sings "a do or die" each time. Those are the words he's consciously singing in every attempt without any real wiggle room.

Some handwritten lyrics by Van Dyke were included in the 2004 tour programme. He makes the retroactive "the diamond necklace played" mistake, mixes up some of the order, and there's no final verse printed, but I think it's probably the most reliable reflection of his original intentions regarding most of the rest of the spelling. Punctuation and line structure reproduced:

Thank you for pointing this out and for all the feedback! I wrote and pinned a comment in the comments section just now to mention my mistake and correct it (and in it, I mention you as being the one who accurately pointed out my mistake). At that point when I was recording the video I was going partially off of memory (ditto when I created the accompanying visual). Jack's roundabout non-answer in that email is stated in a way that I've always found confusing, but you are right. I still think that there's a chance that Brian could have written those lyrics though, but rereading Jack's email now, yeah, he definitely could have written them and I wouldn't be surprised if he did.

And very interesting about those handwritten lyrics! I don't own a tour program myself, but now that you mention them I do recall reading claims that they included handwritten lyrics by Van Dyke. Those certainly would have been good to incorporate into the video and talk about, especially RE: the spelling aspect, but unfortunately it's too late to do that now.

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Boy thats gotta be the strangest single-post SS user Ive ever seen. Huh.

Also, nice to see other people who don't believe the "song is love and the children know the way" lyric is vintage. The SU wiki quotes Reily saying it was vintage 66 Brian but I just don't believe it. I've always thought if that were the case, that's what Brian would sing in the various instances where he recorded the song during the SMiLE sessions. Plus, it just sounds too...preachy...to come from Brian.

I believe Jack Rieley stated he'd added the coda lyric which was added after Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, and engineer Stephen Desper completed the coda. I believe there was a story about them doing this in Brian's home and Brian racing downstairs when he heard them and having this in his memory so I'm assuming he perhaps had part of the melody from the coda. I'm going from memory too so sorry if I've got any of this wrong.  It doesn't scan very well perhaps: 'the children know THE way'.

Some of the stuff online seems to be incorrect . Brian sang handsome mannered baton and I'm guessing this is s a VDP pun.  Red Baton = Baton Rouge.