Beach Baby (1974)    (video)    (midi)

 

    C - G - Am - G (2x)

 

    C                                             G                      Am

1.     Do you remember back in old L.A. (oh, oh, oh)

                                                 E                         F

    when everybody drove a Chevrolet ?(oh, oh, oh)

                                                C

    Whatever happened to the boy next door,

            D                                          G

    the sun-tanned, crew-cut, All-American male?

 

    C                                             G                                    Am

2.     Remember dancing at the high school hop, (oh, oh, oh)

                                                E                             F

    the dress I ruined with the soda pop ? (oh, oh, oh)

                                        C

    I didn't recognize the girl next door

              D                                    G             - G7

    with beat up sneakers and a pony tail.

 

   C                                     F

Beach baby, beach baby, give me your hand,

               G                                   C

give me something that I can remember !

  F                                    G                                      C            - G7

Just like before we can walk by the shore in the moonlight.

    C                                      F

Beach baby, beach baby, there on the sand,

            G                             C

from July to the end of September.

 Am                                  E                              A

surfin' was fun, we'd be out in the sun every day.

 

       D       G                         A            D

    Ooh, I never thought that it could end, uh, uh,

      D          G                  A         D

   Ooh, and I was everybody's friend, uh, uh.

 

    Am                    Am

    Long hot days, blue sea haze,

    Am                                                     D      - G - D - A

    jukebox plays, but now it's fading away !

 

 

 

 

 

 

+  D - G - D - A        - D - D7      + C - G - Am - G (2x)

 

    C                                          G                         Am

3.    We couldn't wait for graduation day (oh, oh, oh),

                                                     E                         F

    we took the car and drove to San Jose (oh, oh, oh),

                                                                C

    that's where you told me that you'd wear my ring,

         D                                       G                - G7

    I guess you don't remember anything.

 

   C                                     F

Beach baby, beach baby, give me your hand,

               G                                    C

give me something that I can remember !

  F                                    G                                      C            - G7

Just like before we can walk by the shore in the moonlight.

    C                                      F

Beach baby, beach baby, there on the sand,

            G                             C

from July to the end of September.

 Am                                  E                              A

surfin' was fun, we'd be out in the sun every day  ....

 

 

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