Beach Boys - Disney Girls Lyrics

These guys are gonna blow up someday. Remember who said it!

It's such a gorgeous waltz and the lyrics evoke someone who's reached a point in their lives like my boyfriend and I have; one that's slower and with priorities on the simple life and love and togetherness. It can happen later in life. In fact, one cannot appreciate it all unless one's lived in the fast lane.

love is a lie

Almost makes me cry, ah to be young again x

Disney Girls (1957) - definitely my favourite Beach Boys song.

I performed a solo soft shoe dance routine to this song for my 5th grade talent show. Most people applauded at the end, but there were a few boos.

Awesome song this song written by Bruce johnston

Superb song!

I liked the review someone gave of this song as being written from a satirical point of view. It adds a dark edge to the song,

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My favourite Beach Boys song. One of my all time favourite songs in general. Lyrics, melody, everything. Oh man.

Sensitive guys rule

Bruce Johnston's finest hour!

GOD BLESS YOU BRUCE...................

This is one of the magic songs.

This is one of the best songs of all time. It was a dream come true song listening to it and falling in love with my surfer girl wife 45 years ago. Listening to it now still puts me a place no other song ever has.

Brought tears this morning. Happy Birthday, Bruce Johnston!

Bruce Johnston is Underrated.

I agree

I love the reference to "Old Cape Cod". As it's not a beach (east coast) you typically think of when you hear the Beach Boys. They were all West coast..

Patti Page had a hit song in 1957 called "Old Cape Cod".

In the early 70s I think the guys found a sweet spot with regards to production. 2:07 to 2:44 is sublime

3:46 whistling

One of my favourites. Always makes me cry.

I would love a vocals only version of this song.

This might not be what you had in mind but Bruce sings it here, alone with piano accompaniment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63NBh0NqaLY

It's about time the Beach Boys get the lifetime achievement award & a live performance afterwards with them singing only, nobody else, with Brian's band backing them up of course.

I love this album but it laid the path for the most awful 70"s kitsch songs that totally missed the point.

I Love Disney Girls. .....My Favorite Album ❤

Amanda Johnston stop

This is what happens when you try to let out your inner child. Think about it.

Makes me remember my daughter when she was young and innocent and ran around in Disney princess costumes nearly every day.

I would play this song for someone I want to marry.

Clearing skies and drying eyes
Now I see your smile
Darkness goes and softness shows
A changing style

Just in time words that rhyme
Well bless your soul
Now I'll fill your hands
With kisses and a Tootsie Roll

Oh reality, it's not for me
And it makes me laugh
Oh, fantasy world and Disney girls
I'm coming back

Patti Page and summer days
On old Cape Cod
Happy times making wine
In my garage
Country shade and lemonade

Guess I'm slowing down
It's a turned back world
With a local girl
In a smaller town

Open cars and clearer stars
That's what I've lacked
But fantasy world and Disney girls
I'm coming back

Love...Hi Rick and Dave
Hi Pop...Well good morning mom
Love...get up guess what
I'm in love with a girl I found
She's really swell
Cause she likes
Church, bingo chances and old time dances

All my life I spent the night
With dreams of you
And the warmth I missed
And for the things I wished
They're all coming true

I've got my love to give
And a place to live
Guess I'm gonna stay
It'd be a peaceful life
With a forever wife
And a kid someday

It's earlier nights
And pillow fights
And your soft laugh
Fantasy world and Disney girls
I'm coming back

favourite

this is criminally underrated omg

Cass Elliot did a decent version of this classic.

Ken Grace. Art Garfunkel also nailed it

Sometimes a song comes back into my life, and I cry because I recognize the heartbreak of lost youth, lost loves and missed opportunities for happiness. This sweet song says it all. I hate the wisdom of age~~I'd prefer to be vacant and young.

beautiful post! thank you for sharing! <3

The way the story is sometimes erroneously told, The Beach Boys were nothing more than a convenient vehicle for Brian Wilson’s incendiary songwriting and brilliant producing. Of course, that misconception overlooks the crucial contributions of the talented men at Brian’s side bringing his artistic vision to thrilling life with their vocals. It also neglects to take into account the years when the troubled genius contributed only sporadically to the band’s output. Consider 1971’s album Surf’s Up, where the rest of the band picked up the songwriting slack for their leader and Bruce Johnson’s wistful waltz “Disney Girls (1957)” stood out as one of the disc’s finest moments.

Johnston would make a mint later in the decade as the writer of Barry Manilow’s “I Write The Songs,” but this earlier effort is the stronger song. “That’s just the way I write,” Johnston said of “Disney Girls (1957). That wasn’t anything other than a really nice song. I was able to weave the voices into it, oohs and aahs. Not that it was ever a hit, but it sold millions of copies riding around other people’s albums. People just loved the lyrical point of view. That’s just one of those nice accidents.”

If you’re not listening closely enough, you might read the title, hear some of the references in Johnston’s opus, and think that it’s easy nostalgia, something in which The Beach Boys have been known to trade. But what you come to realize, either by perusing the lyrics or listening to the subtle ache in those “oohs and aahs,” is that the “fantasy world” on which the narrator fixates is just that, an idealized vision of happiness that he hasn’t yet attained. “Oh, reality, it’s not for me/ And it makes me laugh,” he says. So he instead conjures something that’s part romanticized past and part desired future, a world filled with Tootsie Rolls, Patti Page and “a local girl in a smaller town.”

The unspoken context is that this song comes from a touring musician leading what was likely a hectic life with one of the most famous bands on the planet, so when he sings, “Guess I’m slowing down,” it doesn’t sound like he’s fighting that instinct. In fact, he suggests that this new lifestyle might actually be good for his muse: “Just in time, words that rhyme/ Well, bless your soul.”

In the bridge, the narrator even brings his whole family in to meet the hypothetical girl who will transform him from the rat race to church bingo; he even uses the word “swell” to describe her without a trace of irony. When he reaches the final verse, his longing for this simpler life is palpable, and he seems to regret the path that led him to miss out on this dream girl and idyllic life the first time around. It even seems like he has completely shunned reality by song’s end: “Guess I’m going to stay/ It’d be a peaceful life/ With a forever wife/ And a kid someday.”

In each refrain, the narrator promises, “Fantasy world and Disney girls/ I’m coming back.” The chance that he might never get back there to fulfill that promise is what lends “Disney Girls (1957)” its melancholic air. No Brian Wilson, no problem on this one, as Bruce Johnston stepped up for his signature moment in The Beach Boys.

@Rich Reynolds Have you ever heard Carl sing literally anything? This is Bruce, 100%. I'm writing this while literally holding my copy of Surf's Up that credits Bruce as the sole writer of Disney Girls. And if you wanna read the video description, it also says Bruce there.

@Spos Kanal A big 10-4 on that. I have a PhD on the Beach Boys and have been listening to them since their first produced recording.

@Jonathan Vernot Amen!

@Danny Jones Any recomendation for a good book / publication on the beach boys other than a biography? something that focus on the music...

@CARLOS HALCON I think Google could help you more. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful

I really adore this song. If you know any, please suggest songs similar to this one for me (they don't necessarily have to be from the Beach Boys)! ♡

Sophie, listen to song "If Love Is Real" which was composed and sung by Randy Edelman.

Old Days by Chicago is about remembering days gone past. A bit more of a faster tempo than this song but pretty much a pop song also.

Sophie Miller “ 99 miles from LA” by Art Garfunkel

Pretty Maids all in a Row by the Eagles. Joe Walsh's excellent tune from Hotel California.

"Cuddle Up" by the Beach Boys. A Dennis Wilson and Darryl Dragon composition. Gorgeous.

Beach Boys/Woman Fan Forever Amanda Miller Johnston (1) Disney Girls

A Darlene stop

I love this song... The Beach Boys are great.