the turtles - surfer dan - stereo remix

Edit for headphones, October 2022. A song of the 1968 album "The Turtles Present The Battle Of The Bands" their fourth studio album (2017 deluxe reissue EDSK 7120), a concept album, with the band pretending to be a series of different groups, playing in varying styles. "Surfer Dan" was "performed" by so-called "The Cross Fires".

SURFER DAN
(Johnny Barbata/Howard Kaylan/Al Nichol/Jim Pons/Mark Volman)

movin' so fast you can't see him go by
everybody's talkin' 'bout surfer Dan
Doheny to Nirvana in a Chevy sedan
movin' so fast you can't see him go by

he's a gremmie maharishi in his baggies and beads
super stock surfer jock down to his knees
he's so ripped he can't see you go by

surfer Dan someone that everyone knows
(he's so cool you know his cool is cool)
twenty-seven girls follow wherever he go wow wow
well everybody's lookin' for surfer Dan
skinny Minnie mom and dad and Uncle Sam
he's so cool they can't see him go by

wahooo
wah wahooooo
wah wahooooo
wah wahooooo
wah wahooooo
wah wahooooo
wah wahooooo

surfer Dan someone that everyone knows
(he's so cool you know his cool is cool)
twenty-seven girls follow wherever he go wow wow
everybody's talkin' 'bout surfer Dan
Doheny to Nirvana in a Chevy sedan
movin' so fast you can't see him go by (woo!)
he's so ripped, he can't see you go by
he's so cool they can't see him go by

wahooo
surfer Dan (wah wahoo)
surfer Dan (wah wahoo)
come on get it down
surfer Dan (wah wahoo)
surfer Dan (wah wahoo)
surfer Dan (wah wahoo)
surfer Dan (wah wahoo)
surfer Dan (wah wahoo)
surfer Dan (wah wahoo)
surfer Dan

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