Van Dyke Parks
Sail On, Sailor (Songwriting Session)
[Intro]
BRIAN WILSON: Alright
[?]
BRIAN WILSON: I can't. [?]
(cut)
Hypnotize me and tell me that I ain't... That I ain't crazy
VAN DYKE PARKS (simultaneously): Let me see
BRIAN WILSON: I mean, saying--
(cut)
See...
(singing)
Born into Brooklyn
So many people
I li-di-doo-dum
Doo-doo-di-doo
(speaking) I'm gonna hum and I'm not singing words, because that way, you'll be...
VAN DYKE PARKS: Hey, can--Can we take it and--
(cut)
BRIAN WILSON (singing):
Where I be seein'
De-don-i-doo-ron
San Diego
Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on, sailor
Well
Greyhounds...
Greyhounds [?]-- (speaking) Let's see
Greyhounds and some quiet lips
Sleepin' got to get us
Where we goin' to
Play our next show
Don't take trains
Uh, don't take... airplanes
Might try a boat
(speaking) I might try a boat. Then it goes uh... Boat
[Wordless Vocals]
(speaking) Oh, I see
Da dum, da dum, da da dum
(speaking) OK, now this one goes. You can just piece it. [?] Stop and go
I knew my buddy
He had a...
(speaking) Oh, let me make one right now, real quick, using this pack
I did some snow
I did...
(speaking) Let's see what... "I did..." Um... Uh
I need to-- (speaking) Let's see
I need to try some
I've got to buy some
We know-- (speaking) Let's see
We know we are...
But we can...
[Wordless Vocals]
Way down in Trinidad
(speaking) Something "Way down in Trinidad." Then...
Steal, steal that, steal--
Steal that, steal that, steel-
(speaking) Something
They stole my, stole my steel van
(speaking) Stole my drums, wait
Stole-- They stole all--
The drums in my steel van
(speaking) Something a little tragic sort of thing, you know. Something really funny, like, you know?
VAN DYKE PARKS: Yeah
BRIAN WILSON: Then it goes... Then it should go like this--
(plays piano)
Then, next time it would go like--
(plays piano)
I think go--
Grey-- (speaking) Um...
Way out, way out
Way out, way out
Way out, way out
Way... (speaking) Let's see
Way out
(speaking) What was that part?
Way out
(speaking) Let's see
Da...
Da da, da, da da, da...
VAN DYKE PARKS: It took me forever...
BRIAN WILSON (singing): Da, da... (speaking) Let's see...
Da, da, da, da, dum...
Way down... Day da...
(speaking) Oh, let's see
VAN DYKE PARKS: Yeah, yeah
BRIAN WILSON: You got number one
VAN DYKE PARKS: Exactly
BRIAN WILSON: [?]
VAN DYKE PARKS: Huh?
BRIAN WILSON: You got number one [?]