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Wild HoneyThe Beach Boys

Released: December 18, 1967

Songwriter: Mike Love Brian Wilson

Producer: The Beach Boys

[Chorus]
(Sweet, sweet, honey bee)
(Eat, eat it up, eat it up, honey)

[Verse 1]
Mama, I'm telling you
As sure as I am standing here
She's my girl, and that's the way
I'm keeping it, now mama dear

[Pre-Chorus]
No good will it do you
To stand there and frown at me
The girl's got my heart
And my love's comin' down on me
My love's comin' down since I
Got a taste of wild honey

[Chorus]
(Sweet, sweet, honey bee)
You know she's got the sweetness of a honey bee
(Eat, eat it up, eat it up, honey)
Wild honey
(Sweet, sweet, honey bee)
She got it on and stung me good, yes siree
(Eat, eat it up, eat it up, honey)

[Pre-Chorus]
With all the other stud bees
Buzzin' all around her hive
She singled me out
Single-handed took me alive
Can you dig I'm gonna take my life
Eatin' up her wild honey?

[Chorus]
(Sweet, sweet, honey bee)
(Eat, eat it up, eat it up, honey)
(Sweet, sweet, honey bee)
(Eat, eat it up, eat it up, honey)

[Bridge]
Oh mama, she's sweeter
(Sweeter)
And sweeter
(And sweeter)
Sweeter, sweeter (Mmm)
(Good, good, good)
Sweet wild honey

[Chorus]
(Sweet, sweet, honey bee)
Let me tell you how she really got to my soul
(Eat, eat it up, eat it up, honey)
It ain't funny
(Sweet, sweet, honey bee)
The way she makes me wanna sing a little rock and roll
(Eat, eat it up, eat it up, honey)

[Pre-Chorus]
There's nothing quite as sweet
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

[Chorus/Outro]
(Sweet, sweet, honey bee)
Wild honey, she's mine
(Eat, eat it up, eat it up, honey)
Oh, wild honey, she's mine
(Sweet, sweet, honey bee)
(Eat, eat it up, eat it up, honey)
(Sweet, sweet, honey bee)
(Eat, eat it up, eat it up, honey)...

The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys are one of the world’s best-selling bands of all time and the first American pop band to reach the 50-year milestone. Their vocal harmonies are among the most unmistakable and enduring of the rock and roll era.

Formed in 1961 in Hawthorne, California, by Brian Wilson, his two brothers Carl and Dennis, their cousin Mike Love, and classmate Al Jardine, the group’s first single “Surfin'” got them signed to Capitol Records and they quickly became one of the most popular and successful artists of the surf music craze of the 1960s. From 1962 to 1966, The Beach Boys scored over twenty top 40 hits in the US including the chart-toppers “I Get Around”, “Help Me Rhonda” & “Good Vibrations” along with the top 5’s “Surfin USA”, “Fun, Fun, Fun”, “California Girls”, “Barbara Ann” & “Sloop John B”. Several of the band’s singles also found top 40 success in Canada, Australia, Sweden and the UK. In 1965, de facto leader Brian Wilson suffered a mental breakdown due to the stress of writing, producing & touring combined with substance abuse issues, causing him to step down and stop traveling with the band on tour.

Inspired by producer Phil Spector and The Beatles' Rubber Soul, Brian focused on studio work, determined to keep the group relevant as the surf music scene was fading with their 1966 album Pet Sounds. Despite tension between members in the studio about this new direction, lack of faith from the record label, mixed reviews, and comparatively lukewarm reception initially in the US, the album still found massive success in the UK and earned accolades from fellow artists including The Beatles, who acknowledged that the album was their inspiration to further push the boundaries of pop music with their landmark album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Eventually Pet Sounds would be acknowledged as one of the greatest albums ever recorded by several media outlets like The Times, Mojo Magazine, The Guardian, VH1, BBC and Rolling Stone.

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