OK, I just have to ask...

[TheLazenby]

I've never heard "Hey Little Tomboy", but read the lyrics of the album version.  I've also heard over and over about how bad the original, unreleased version was.  Anyone care to elaborate??

[Jeff Mason]

Spoken in the song:

"And now you're going to shave your legs for the very first time!"

Nuff said.

[Sir Rob]

Spoken in the song:

"And now you're going to shave your legs for the very first time!"

Nuff said.

It sounds like a bunch of pervy old blokes drooling over a teenage girl. 

[Andrew G. Doe]

"Take her out a time or two"

Spoken by Mike in his best Humbert Humbert voice. 

[Andrew G. Doe]

Spoken in the song:

"And now you're going to shave your legs for the very first time!"

Nuff said.

It sounds like a bunch of pervy old blokes drooling over a teenage girl. 

'Xactly.

The line that worries me the most is Mike singing

"Hey little tomboy sit here on my lap/I got things that I gotta tell you"

Dunno about California, but you can get arrested for that in the UK.

[Sir Rob]

Spoken in the song:

"And now you're going to shave your legs for the very first time!"

Nuff said.

It sounds like a bunch of pervy old blokes drooling over a teenage girl. 

I do sometimes wonder about this:  All Dressed Up, Roller Skating Child, Hey Little Tomboy and I Wanna Pick You Up.   

'Xactly.

[Sir Rob]

Something funny's happened there.  My last post has appeared as a quote?!

[Evenreven]

I've never heard "Hey Little Tomboy", but read the lyrics of the album version.

Thankfully, the printed lyrics give you no clue about how Mike Love intones the line "I'm gonna teach you to keh-he-hesss". It's one of the THE Beach Boys moments; beyond good and bad, beyond good and evil.

[Jason Penick]

I love this song.  I know everybody else hates it, but to me there's something so quintessentially Beach Boys about it.  That lead up to the chorus with Mike going "I'm gonna teach you to ki-i-iss, you're gonna feel just like thi-i-iss..." and Brian comes back with falsetto "they're doin' it all over the worrrrlllddd..."   Solid Gold, baby!

I really dig "Matchpoint of Our Love" too, so I guess that really puts me out of step with most other BB/BW fans. 

[TheLazenby]

OK, I'm gonna take this even further - what's wrong with "Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "Wrinkles"??  (I haven't heard those two either...)

[Andrew G. Doe]

"Battle Hymn" is just plain hysterical, taken at just too fast a clip for Mike to sing properly (not to mention the world's worst recorded banjo solo...).

"Wrinkles"... is about a dog. A dead dog. Here's the first verse:

"She once had a doggie named Wrinkles
Who went with her pigtails and freckles.
Just like a tisket and a tasket
He came one Christmas in a basket"

Excuse me... I don't feel too good...

[Bean Bag]

Yeah, Tomboy, if it doesn't cross the line,...it surely makes the line visible.  The line that you don't see when you hear Roller Skating Child, etc...with lyrics like "we'll do more when your mama's not around."

BUT...I prefer to think of it as "middle-aged man buys corvette."  Not "middle-aged man buys corvette and waits outside of school."  You know, since its them reliving youth in music and reliving the youthful spirit of what the Beach Boys music represents.  

I should be lawyer.  

[cabinessence]

He came one Christmas in a basket

which begs the rhyme (since this is a dead dog lament)

"he left one Christmas in a casket"

(just guessing! Never heard this myself)

[shelter]

I think the most disturbing thing about the song is that in the first verse it sounds like a father talking to his daughter who is most likely in her early teens, and that in the second verse she somehow turned into a lust object.

[SurferGirl7]

The Airplane transition in the middle of the song is just as scary 

[Mark A. Moore]

Dunno about California, but you can get arrested for that in the UK.

And you just might receive a post-Feminist slap for uttering "Two Girls For Every Boy"  . . . in certain circles . . . or not, depending.

M.

[LaurieBiagini]

Haha!  Not if they're Jan & Dean fans! 

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

"Battle Hymn" is just plain hysterical, taken at just too fast a clip for Mike to sing properly (not to mention the world's worst recorded banjo solo...).

"Wrinkles"... is about a dog. A dead dog. Here's the first verse:

"She once had a doggie named Wrinkles
Who went with her pigtails and freckles.
Just like a tisket and a tasket
He came one Christmas in a basket"

Excuse me... I don't feel too good...

The dog came in a basket? Was it...HER... um..."basket"?
I am leaving to go vomit now. Thank you.

[Andrew G. Doe]

I'll never think of that song in the same way again.

Of course, with luck, I'll never think of it again, period.

[SurferGirl7]

Can't Stop Talking About American Girls is just as disturbing. 

[donald]

Just some more strange Brian Wilson lyrics.  It starts out as if its a father figure maybe talking to a young "tomboy" about growing up and becoming more feminine.....weird enough by itself and certainly not PC, even by 70's standards.  Then it shifts gears and says "I'm gonna teach you to kiss".......ooops!!  not a daddy speaking any more!
Then you wonder if it's a potential boyfriend's perspective..........still weird because the boy then seems too old with his perspective...too old to be hitting on a little "tomboy". 

I just can't make those lyrics work....

I think Brian had trouble writing lyrics sometimes.  Should have brought in Mike Love on this one.

[SurferGirl7]

Still funny as hell though 

[I. Spaceman]

AGAIN, here's the deal.
BRIAN LIKES UNDERAGE GIRLS!!!!!!!!!!!
He was turned on by the adolescent school girl thing.
Listen to All Dressed Up For School, fer CHRISSAKES!
"Dressed up for school, ooh what a turn on".
He was attracted to Barbara Rovell who was 13!
That is all.

[SurferGirl7]

No wonder he was so happy to see me 

[Andrew G. Doe]

"Three-fifteen and the bell starts a-ringin'
The girls start walkin' home from school
Three-fifteen and the bell keeps on a-ringin'
and everything is gettin' cool

It's so hard to walk home
When you're walkin' alone.
I slow down in my car
And I pull to the kerb"

"Lazy Lizzie". Pretty unambiguous if you ask me. Definite touch of the Errols.