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Beach Boy

1933

LYRICS

Beach Boy!

The smell of a Southern island

Is burning burning burning like a fire

Deep in your eyes

I see the sighs

Deep in the eyes

Your smile is gleaming gleaming gleaming

Like the stars of paradise

Swimmer in the glimmer

Glimmer of the moonbeams

Thought the waters falling

I can see the shimmer

Shimmer of your arms

And hear the natives calling

Beach Boy!

The memory of your kisses

Is burning burning burning

Like a deep sand

Beside the sea

Your arms around me

While waters pound me

My heart is beating beating beating

With the waves in ecstasy

Beach Boy!

IMAGE

Beach Boy

SONG NOTES

This song is set on an unspecified 'Southern island'. See the exhibit Significant Others to explore the exoticising of the Pacific regiion.

(The photo is of composer Ann Ronnell in 1953)

RECORD LABEL

Victor

LANGUAGE

English

FEATURED IN

Down to The Last Yacht [Motion picture]

CITATION

"Victor matrix BS-83351. Beach boy / Bob Lawrence ; Paul Whiteman Orchestra." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/200017316/BS-83351-Beach_boy