[Section 1]

[Verse 1: Carl Wilson]
A diamond necklace played the pawn
Hand in hand some drummed along, oh
To a handsome mannered baton
(Bygone, bygone)

[Verse 2: Carl Wilson]
A blind class aristocracy
Back through the opera glass you see
The pit and the pendulum drawn
(Bygone, bygone)

[Bridge: Carl Wilson]
Columnated ruins domino
Canvass the town and brush the backdrop
Are you sleeping?

[Verse 3: Carl Wilson]
Hung velvet overtaken me
Dim chandelier awaken me
To a song dissolved in the dawn
(Bygone, bygone)

[Verse 4: Carl Wilson]
The music hall a costly bow
The music all is lost for now
To a muted trumpeter swan
(Bygone, bygone)
[Bridge: Carl Wilson]
Columnated ruins domino
Canvass the town and brush the backdrop
Are you sleeping, Brother John?

[Section 2]

[Verse 1: Brian Wilson]
Dove nested towers the hour was
Strike the street quicksilver moon
Carriage across the fog
Two-Step to lamp lights cellar tune

[Verse 2: Brian Wilson]
The laughs come hard in Auld Lang Syne
The glass was raised, the fired rose
The fullness of the wine, the dim last toasting
While at port adieu or die

[Verse 3: Brian Wilson]
A choke of grief heart hardened, I
Beyond belief, a broken man too tough to cry

[Verse 4: Brian Wilson]
Surf's Up, mm-mm, mm-mm, mm-mm
Aboard a tidal wave
Come about hard and join
The young and often spring you gave
I heard the word
Wonderful thing
A children's song
[Section 3]

[Refrain: Group, Al Jardine and Jack Ripley]
Child, child, child, child, child
A child is the father of the man
Child, child, child, child, child
A child is the father of the man
A children's song
Have you listened as they played
Their song is love
And the children know the way
That's why the child is the father to the man
Child, child, child, child, child
Child, child, child, child, child
Na na na na na na na na
Child, child, child, child, child
That's why the child is the father to the man
Child, child, child, child, child