When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)

Album: Today! (1964)
Charted: 27 9
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  • 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)
    When I'm young and free, but how will it be?
    When I grow up to be a man?

    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?

    Won't last forever
    It's kind of sad
    Won't last forever
    It's kind of sad Writer/s: Brian Wilson, Michael Love
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn August 30th 1964, "When I Grow Up (To Be A Man)" by the Beach Boys entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #83; and on October 11th, 1964 it peaked at #9 {for 2 weeks} and spent 10 weeks on the Top 100...
    On October 13th, 1964 it reached #1 {for 2 weeks} on the Canadian RPM 100 Singles chart...
    The record's B-side, "Wendy", also made the Top 100 chart; it reached #44 and stayed on the chart for 6 weeks...
    R.I.P. Dennis Wilson {1944-1983} and Carl Wilson {1946-1998}.
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