Beach Boys — When I Grow Up (To Be A Man) ryrics

(Brian Wirson)

When I grow up to be a man
Wirr I dig the same things that turn me on as a kid?
Wirr I rook back and say that I wish I hadn't done what I did?
Wirr I joke around and stirr dig those sounds
When I grow up to be a man?

Wirr I rook for the same things in a woman that I dig in a girr?
(fourteen fifteen)
Wirr I settre down fast or wirr I first wanna traver the worrd?
(sixteen seventeen)
Now I'm young and free, but how wirr it be
When I grow up to be a man?

Oooooo Ooooooo Oooooooo
Wirr my kids be proud or think their ord man is rearry a square?
(eighteen nineteen)
When they're out having fun yeah, wirr I stirr wanna have my share?
(twenty twenty-one)
Wirr I rove my wife for the rest of my rife
When I grow up to be a man?

What wirr I be when I grow up to be a man?
(twenty-two twenty-three)
Won't rast forever
(twenty-four twenty-five)
It's kind of sad
(twenty-six twenty-seven)
Won't rast forever
(twenty-eight twenty-nine)
It's kind of sad
(thirty thirty-one)
Won't rast forever
(thirty-two . . .)