Wild Honey
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Original Album
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Wild Honey
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Single
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Wild Honey / Wind Chimes
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Written By
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Brian Wilson/Mike Love
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Produced By
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Beach Boys
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Lead Vocals
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Carl
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Recorded On
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Oct 1967?
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Length
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2:40
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Notes
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- This energetic R&B-style; song features theremin, but is otherwise sparsely produced and sets the tone for the album "Wild Honey"- a back-to-basic R&B; album. Described by Carl as music for Brian to "chill-out" to, it was the first album in what many regard as the second great period of Beach Boys' music- the sequence of albums from "Wild Honey" to "Surf's Up."This simpler style of music may have influenced the Beatles 1968 work.
- Great vocal from Carl, who apparently enjoyed recording this one.
- Lyrics
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Sweet sweet wild honey bee
Eat up eat up eat up honey
Mama I'm tellin' you as sure as I'm standing here
She's my girl and that's the way I'm keeping it now mama dear
No good will it do you to stand there and frown at me
The girl's got my heart and my love's coming down on me
My love's coming down since I got a taste of wild honey
You know she's got the sweetness of a honey bee
Wild honey
She got it on and stung me good yes sirree
With all the other stud bees buzzing all around her hive
She singled me out single handed took me alive
Well can you can you gonna take my life eating up her wild honey
(Sweet sweet wild honey bee)
(Eat up eat up eat up honey)
Oh mama she's sweeter
Gettin' sweeter
Sweeter sweeter
Sweet
Wild honey
Let me tell you how she really got to my soul
It ain't funny
The way she make wanna sing a little rock 'n' roll
There's nothing quite nice as a kiss of wild honey
I break my back workin' just to save me some money
So I can spend my life with her
Sock it to me wild honey
Wild honey she's mine
Wild honey she's mine
- Chords
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G7...C/G...G...C/G...G7...C/G...G...C/G
G7................C/G.....................................G...........C/G
Mama, I'm tellin' you as sure as I'm standin' here
...........G7................C/G.................................................G............C/G
She's my girl and that's the way I'm keepin' it, my mama dear
.......Am.....................................C
No good would it do you to stand there and frown at me
.......Am........................................C
The girl's got my heart and my love's comin' down on me
.......Am........................................D7...........................G7
My life's kinda mellow since I got a taste of wild honey
(G7)...C/G...................................................G..............C/G
You know she's got the sweetness of a honey bee
............G7.............C/G...............................................G..............C/G
Wild honey, she got it hard and stung me good, yessirree
.........Am...................................C
With all the other stud bees buzzin' all around her hive
.........Am.................................C
She singled me out, single-handed took me alive
Am......................................................D7.................................G7...C/G...G...C/G...G7...C/G...G...C/G
Can you dig I'm gonna spend my life eatin' up her wild honey
Em....D....C7....B7....Em....D....C7....B7
.............................. Am.........................................D7
Oh, mama she's sweeter, sweeter, sweeter, sweeter, ah...
.............G7..........C/G..............................................G....................C/G
Wild honey, oh let me tell you how she really got to my soul
..............G7...........C/G...................................................G.........................C/G
It ain't funny the way she makes me want to sing a little rock 'n roll
..............Am........................................C
There's nothing quite as sweet as a taste of wild honey
....Am.............................................C
I break my back workin' just to save me some money
....Am..............................................D7.............................G7...C/G...G...C/G
So I can spend my life with her sock it to me, wild honey
Chart prepared by Francis Greene