When I Grow Up (to Be A Man)

The Beach Boys

When I grow up to be a man

Will I dig the same things that turn me on as a kid?

Will I look back and say that I wish I hadn't done what I

did?

Will I joke around and still dig those sounds

When I grow up to be a man?



Will I look for the same things in a woman that I dig in a

girl?

(fourteen fifteen)

Will I settle down fast or will I first wanna travel the

world?

(sixteen seventeen)

Now I'm young and free, but how will it be

When I grow up to be a man?



Oooooo Ooooooo Oooooooo

Will my kids be proud or think their old man is really a

square?

(eighteen nineteen)

When they're out having fun yeah, will I still wanna have my

share?

(twenty twenty-one)

Will I love my wife for the rest of my life

When I grow up to be a man?



What will I be when I grow up to be a man?

(twenty-two twenty-three)

Won't last forever

(twenty-four twenty-five)

It's kind of sad

(twenty-six twenty-seven)

Won't last forever

(twenty-eight twenty-nine)

It's kind of sad

(thirty thirty-one)

Won't last forever

(thirty-two . . .)