Chords for Sound of the Surf - Surf Music documentary
Tempo:
103.8 bpm
Chords used:
E
A
Am
F
Em
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[F] [E]
[E]
[A] I regard surf music as one of America's great regional folk movements.
[D] band.
[A] that this was a surf culture of music.
[E] the boards were big and cumbersome.
a shack.
[A] If you had to try to categorize the act of surfing, it's all just dance.
[E]
[A] I regard surf music as one of America's great regional folk movements.
[D] band.
[A] that this was a surf culture of music.
[E] the boards were big and cumbersome.
a shack.
[A] If you had to try to categorize the act of surfing, it's all just dance.
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_ _ [F] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
[A] _ I regard surf music as one of America's great regional folk movements.
We just sat [Em] down and played [A] together one day and it became a [D] band.
_ Nobody contrived it or invented it.
It was clear [A] that this was a surf culture of music.
We didn't have [Am] wetsuits, we didn't, you know, [E] the boards were big and cumbersome.
There were young men, there was somebody living in a shack.
I was a surfer.
_ I was a kahuna. _
[A] If you had to try to categorize the act of surfing, it's all just dance.
[D#] _ _ [B] _ _ [E] The rendezvous was like [C] the place to go.
We had thousands of [Am] people in there going to surfers' dom.
And [F] we just kept playing louder [E] and louder and [E] louder. _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#] The mainstream world jumped on it and began to merchandise the [Em] heck out of it.
We were there, they were on the beach, they were suntanned.
Everybody wanted a surfboard and a woody.
Kids would drive [Am] around with half a surfboard hanging out the trunk of the car
to emulate being a surfer and they'd never seen the ocean.
To have a culture [B] that revolved around a sport [C] was a really [Am] unusual thing to have.
It was a genuine phenomena.
It was just simply [A] guitar and surfing.
That's all I did.
That's how I spent my life. _
_ No strings attached, no American Express car.
_ _ _ You're chasing the surf, you're chasing the girl, [Dm] you're chasing the ax.
_ _ Wow, that's it.
That's the future.
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
[A] _ I regard surf music as one of America's great regional folk movements.
We just sat [Em] down and played [A] together one day and it became a [D] band.
_ Nobody contrived it or invented it.
It was clear [A] that this was a surf culture of music.
We didn't have [Am] wetsuits, we didn't, you know, [E] the boards were big and cumbersome.
There were young men, there was somebody living in a shack.
I was a surfer.
_ I was a kahuna. _
[A] If you had to try to categorize the act of surfing, it's all just dance.
[D#] _ _ [B] _ _ [E] The rendezvous was like [C] the place to go.
We had thousands of [Am] people in there going to surfers' dom.
And [F] we just kept playing louder [E] and louder and [E] louder. _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#] The mainstream world jumped on it and began to merchandise the [Em] heck out of it.
We were there, they were on the beach, they were suntanned.
Everybody wanted a surfboard and a woody.
Kids would drive [Am] around with half a surfboard hanging out the trunk of the car
to emulate being a surfer and they'd never seen the ocean.
To have a culture [B] that revolved around a sport [C] was a really [Am] unusual thing to have.
It was a genuine phenomena.
It was just simply [A] guitar and surfing.
That's all I did.
That's how I spent my life. _
_ No strings attached, no American Express car.
_ _ _ You're chasing the surf, you're chasing the girl, [Dm] you're chasing the ax.
_ _ Wow, that's it.
That's the future.
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[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _