Anna Lee, The Healer


Original Album
Friends
Written By
Mike Love/Brian Wilson
Produced By
Beach Boys
Lead Vocals
Mike
Recorded On
April, 1968
Length
1:51
Notes
  • A tribute to a masseuse.
  • Very simple instrumentation, just a piano bass line on the verses.
Lyrics
Anna Lee, Anna Lee, the healer
Healer with the healing hands
Makes you well as quick as she can
You'd love to see those smiling eyes
Of Anna Lee

From the Himalaya mountain side
Up in Rishikesh
To a California beach house
Facing towards the sea
Goes a gal who got her fame
By going round healing folks

Anna Lee, Anna Lee, the healer
Healer with the healing hands
Makes you well as quick as she can
You'd feel those healing hands
Of Anna Lee

When she gets a chance to help someone
She's really happy
If you trust her with your ill
She'll quickly make you see
She can fix things up for you
Just like she did for me

Anna Lee, Anna Lee, the healer
She cures people with her hands
I'm just one of her many fans
You'd love to feel those healing hands
Of Anna Lee

The healer, the healer, the healer, the healer
Chords
Am7.............B7...................Emaj9
Anna Lee, Anna Lee, the healer
G#m......A.............B.........C#m
Healer with the healing hands
G#m..............A............B.................C#m
Makes you well as quick as she can
............Am7.........................B7.....................E
You'd love to see those smiling eyes of Anna Lee

...................E.....A......B..............A................E...........A...B...A
From the Himalaya mountain side up in Rishikesh
...........E....A.......B......................A..............................E...A...B...A
To a California beach house facing towards the sea
...............E............A............B...........A...................E.................A...B...A
Goes a gal who got her fame by going round healing folks
Am7............B7....................Emaj9
Anna Lee, Anna Lee, the healer

G#m.......A............B.........C#m
Healer with the healing hands
G#m...............A............B................C#m
Makes you well as quick as she can
............Am7.........................B7.........................E
You'd love to feel those healing hands of Anna Lee

.....................E...........A.............B..............A............................E.....A...B...A
When she gets a chance to help someone she's really happy
...............E.............A.............B...............A..........................E...A...B...A
If you trust her with your ill she'll quickly make you see
................E...............A..........B...........A........................E...A...B...A
She can fix things up for you just like she did for me
Am7............B7....................Emaj9
Anna Lee, Anna Lee, the healer

G#m.............A.........B............C#m
She cures people with her hands
G#m.......A.................B......C#m
I'm just one of her many fans
............Am7........................B7.........................E
You'd love to feel those healing hands of Anna Lee
........Emaj9
The healer, the healer, the healer, the healer

Chart prepared by Francis Greene

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