Well east coast girls are hip
I really dig those styles they wear…
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January in the Great White North… This is a time of year (in Canada at least, no crazed Aussie wildfires here) where bone-chilling temperatures and piled up banks of snow make many of us so-called Brave Northerners actually pine for warm tropical beaches and … as we kick the snow off our boots …
… musically… a slingshot release to the warm halcyon days of summer, short-sleeves and bikini-on-the-beach kinda songs … the idealistic Beach Boys kind of music.
Light, breezy, romantic, carefree, fun … and in my mind at least, filled with incredible harmonies, lots of reverb, and Fender Rickenbacker and Stratocaster electric guitars.
And the Northern girls with the way they kiss
They keep their boyfriends warm at night
This week’s set of lyrics is my ode to what we might think of as simpler and arousing formative times … the awakening of puberty …
… simpler times when one of the joys of this young boy’s summer was lingering with a couple of friends at the school playground across the field from my house where we could hear the nearby crack of baseball bats hitting balls and the smell of newly cut grass filled our noses.
Not yet old enough to drive, we’d head to the park after supper around 6:30 or 7 at night and hang out at the swings and monkey bars, anxiously waiting for a pair or threesome of our favourite sweet lasses to arrive at the “meeting place”.
Sometimes they’d show and sometimes not, but either way, the childhood, child-like anticipation of the great titillating flirt-to-come was deliciously exciting and naughty.
I wish they all could be California girls
I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California girls
So let’s get to the childhood fun while the gettin’s hot!
SUMMER BOYS’ PRAYER
by Larry Green
Better hurry now
cuz the sun is getting low
and the girls we know have to be home
before the streetlights start to show
My two pals and me
grab the patch by the swings
make sure we have our fav spots laid out
get our best chance for a summertime fling
Racy game of anticipating
swearing out stories while we’re waiting
they know we’re here baying at the moon
they know we’re preying and hope they’ll be here soon
Just Summer boys
Wishin’ and dreamin’
in the church of passionate hopes
where pipe dreams are playin’
that’s our summer boys’ prayer
the summer boys’ prayer
There’s a flowery scent in their hair
at this sticky air time of the year
with rumours that drive us lads crazy
we’re workin’ real hard to get past maybe
Renato loves Adele’s brunette bob
I dream of how Cathy’s long blonde falls
And Frank well he just doesn’t care
cuz if they’re cute he digs them all
Bridge
Blood heads to new places
inside there’s a heat to this stirring…
Just Summer boys
Wishin’ and dreamin’
in the church of passionate hopes
where pipe dreams are playin’
that’s our summer boys’ prayer
the summer boys’ prayer
Jan 19, 2020 @ 17:32:32
Ok Sir-Blog-a-Lot…..I’m a bit reluctant to offer any suggestions because I’d never want you to think your lyrics aren’t fantastic….which I think they already are…..however…..sometimes a new pair of eyes suggests a different flow of words that may offer the lyricist some inspiration and so here is some wording that came to me as I was reading the song lyrics:
Better get a move on
The sun is sinking low
And the girls have to be home
Before the streetlights start to show
The boys & I
Stake out some grass by the swings
Our favourite spots picked out
Improves our chances for a summertime fling
Hands get sweaty and
Heartbeats race
While we brag of conquests as we wait
They know we’re here baying at the moon
Preying & hoping they’ll be here soon
Flowery scents fill the air
As they arrive made up with freshly washed hair
They’ve heard rumours and that drives us crazy
We’re working hard to get past maybe
Anyways……just some ideas. Mulch it around and use what works…..or not…..😁
Love ya my man.
Peace
Jim
Jan 19, 2020 @ 19:13:36
HOLY S**T Amigo… I love your suggestions… it’s lighter, more conversational… more Beach Boys-like… I’m adding your name to the songwriting credit on this. You know if we lived nearby each other… there would be an Elton John/Bernie Taupin synergy going on…. I’m working on a musical scoring on this today… I’m excited.. thanks! 🙂
Jan 19, 2020 @ 19:38:52
Woooooohoooooo……I’m smelling the scent of ROYALTIES
Booooooyyyaaaaahhhhhh
😁