The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations: Thirty Years Of The Beach Boys Bonus Disc Album Lyrics

In My Room Lyrics


(Demo)
Time: 2:33
Brian Wilson/Gary Usher

Oooo ooo oo oooooo
Oooo ooo oo oooooo

There's a world where I can go and tell my secrets to
In my room, in my room (in my room)
In this world I lock out all my worries and my fears
In my room, in my room (in my room)

Do my dreaming and my scheming
Lie awake and pray
Do my crying and my sighing
Laugh at yesterday

Now it's dark and I'm alone
But I won't be afraid
In my room, in my room (in my room)
(In my room, in my room)
(In my room, in my room)
(In my room, in my room)
(In my room)


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Radio Spot #1 Lyrics


Time: 0:09

Hi we're the Beach Boys
And we'd like to thank all the guys at KDWB
For being so cool
And for playing all the Beach Boys records
Especially our latest


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I Get Around Lyrics


(Track Only)
Time 2:19
Brian Wilson

Top let's go
Here we go
One two, a one two three

. . . Get around
I get around
Yeah
Get around round round I get around
I get ar . . .

. . . Get around
I get around
Yeah
Get around round round I get around
I get ar . . .


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Radio Spot #2 Lyrics


Time: 0:15

Hi Rog, this is Brian of the Beach Boys
Thanks a lot for playin' our new record "Dance, Dance, Dance"
And all the other records in the past
Do you know we're going to England real soon?
I hope I can tell you all about the Beatles and the Stones when I get back


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Dance, Dance, Dance Lyrics


(Tracking Session)
Time: 2:13
Brian Wilson/Carl Wilson

Seventeen
Hello
Who is it
One two, one two three go


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Hang On To Your Ego Lyrics


(Sessions)
Time: 6:40
Brian Wilson/Tony Asher

This time we're going to record with a tape recorder
Brian, Brian do you want me to lay out again on that instrumental break
(You got a tape recorder in there?) and then come back in with Forrest
toward the end like before?
I'm gonna have you wail on that baby for the instrumental break, think
you can do it?
I play it straight through this time
Try to wail this thing you know
Play it loud
Hey does the union know your recording?
Here we go
This'll be wht?
Take two
Just relax me and this other cat are going to straighten you guys out
then we'll get you into world peace. Did you ever hear that album called
"How To Speak Hip"? Has anybody ever heard it?
Nope
What is it?
Oh, it's funny. It's "How To Speak Hip" by Del Close and John Brenner it
was cut in '59. It's a very funny album. Okay let's go
Take
This is take
Two
Take two "Let Go Of Your Ego"
One two, one two three

No hold it please for a minute I'll be out
Could we give it, give it a real uh, play it real good and strong this
time, we may get it real soon huh? Do you thnik we could hear a little
bit more harmonica (yeah) in that instrumental break, I don't know.  This
Let Go Of Your Libido Lyrics

 libido take nine
One two, one two three

Thanks, that's it


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God Only Knows Lyrics


(Tracking Session)
Time: 9:15
Brian Wilson/Tony Asher

Two (what happened?) one two top
Top
Nice, nice Todd

Let's let's make one more please huh?
Brian (ha ha) Brian
Yeah
Why don't we do it short like this
Let's get to that part second time through way right
Guys shhh hold it hold it keep it down one time please. Let's try when we
get to that part instead of playing like the quarter note full make it
like a stacatto note bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop
Short everything short
We'd like to try it this way
Somethin's burning up here I smell something oh Kyle what are you doing?
Take it from that spot please
Letter "A" second time
No
No no
No no no just that spot
That spot
Take it two bars ahead
Two bars ahead

Hey no, just that one spot right dad? No, just that one spot. Drrreeew
Brian do you want those little things on your snare
Try tom tom once let me hear it right now
Do snare once
That's it okay let's go, okay let's make it one more, we all could be a
little closer in spots whare he's going naauhhh, that little moving part.
Alright let's play it strong, let's go. Move in closer, flutes, at the
fadeout
One two
Here we go
One
And also bass clarinet move in a little bit at the fadeout
One two, one two three

We got it, thank you very much
You wanna hear it come on

I may not always love you
But long as there are stars above you
You'll never need to doubt it
I'll make you so sure about it

And God only knows what I'd be without you

If you should ever leave me
Though life would still go on believe me
The world could show nothing to me
So what good would living do me

God only knows what I'd be without you

God only knows what I'd be without you

If you should ever leave me
Well life would still go on believe me
The world could show nothing to me
So what good would living do me

God only knows what I'd be without you
God only knows what I'd be without you
God only knows what I'd be without you
God only knows what I'd be without you
What I'd be with you
God only knows
(Bop bop bop)
God only knows what I'd be without you
(Bop bop bop)
God only knows what I'd be without you
(Bop bop bop)
God only knows
(Bop bop bop)
God only knows what I'd be without you
(Bop bop bop)
God only knows what I'd be without you
(Bop bop bop)
God only knows
(Bop bop bop)
God only knows what I'd be without you
(Bop bop bop)
God only knows what I'd be without you
(Bop bop bop)
God only knows
(Bop bop bop)
God only knows what I'd be without you
(Bop bop bop)
God only knows what I'd be without you
(Bop bop bop)
God only knows
(Bop bop bop)
God only knows what I'd be without you


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Good Vibrations Lyrics


(Sessions)
Time: 15:18
Brian Wilson/Mike Love

"Good Vibrations" take one
We're rolling in there
We're rolling come on let's go
One two, one two three

Hold it please. Let me hear the organ. Okay stop please. Perfect, okay
we'll go with that. Let's go again please. Okay now, I'd like to start it
out now this time with the organ and the Fender bass okay. Then uh and
then the bongos will come in in the second half like evrything else.
Alright here we go organ, Fender bass, and piccolo.
One two, one two

No, Larry can you switch that motor on for the verses and off for "B"
okay. Okay turn it on for this. Now here we go, this'll make twenty-one
please. Are we all set for that thing where everything drops out and
builds up? Okay

Wait a minute where are we? See what it is is he, the organ's on two-four
and you guys think it's the the one-beat don't ya? Here we go play hard
and strong all the way. And watch me on that part now.
Twenty-eight

Hum be dum
Hum be dum oh oh
Hum be dum
Hum be dum oh oh
Hum be dum
Hum be dum oh oh
Hum be dum
Hum be dum oh oh
Hum be dum
Hum be dum oh oh
Hum be dum
Hum be dum oh oh
Hum be dum
Hum be dum oooooo

It really felt good, let's play it

She's already working on my brain
I, I only looked in her eyes
But I picked up something I just can't explain

I'm pickin' up
Good good good good vibrations yeah
Good good good good vibrations yeah
Good good good good vibrations
Good good good good vibrations yeah

I, I bet I know what she's like
And I can feel how right she'd be for me
It's wierd how she comes in so strong
And I wonder what she's pickin' up for me

I hope it's
Good good good good vibrations yeah
Good good good good vibrations yeah
(Ooo ooo ooo oooo ooooooo)
(Ooo ooo ooo oooo ooooooo)
Good good good good vibrations yeah
Hey

Good good good good vibrations yeah
Good good good good vibrations yeah
Good
Good good good good vibrations yeah
Good good good good vibrations yeah
Good good good good vibrations yeah

One two, one two three


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Heroes And Villains Lyrics


(Track Only)
Time: 0:47
Brian Wilson/Van Dyke Parks

Instrumental


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Cabinessence Lyrics


(Track Only)
Time: 4:00
Brian Wilson/Van Dyke Parks

One two, one two three

Instrumental


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Surf's Up Lyrics


(Track Only)
Time: 1:41
Brian Wilson/Van Dyke Parks

Instrumental


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Radio Spot #3 Lyrics


Time: 0:06

Hi
This
Is
The
Beach
Boys

Al
Bruce
Carl
Mike
Brian
and Dennis


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All Summer Long Lyrics

 (Stereo)
Time: 2:06 Irving Music, Inc. BMI
Master #52124 Recorded 5/6/64 & 5/7/64
Brian Wilson

Sittin' in my car outside your house
(Sittin' in my car outside your house)
'Member when you spilled coke all over you blouse

T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs
(T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs)
We've been having fun all summer long

(All summer long you've been with me)
I can't see enough of you
(All summer long we've both been free)
Won't be long til summer time is through
(Summer time is through)
Not for us now

Miniature golf and Hondas in the hills
(Miniature golf and Hondas in the hills)
When we rode the horse we got some thrills
Every now and then we hear our song
(Every now and then we hear our song)
We've been having fun all summer long

Won't be long til summer time is through
(Summer time is through)
Not for us now
Every now and then we hear our song
(Every now and then we hear our song)
We've been having fun all summer long
We've been having fun all summer long
(We've been having fun all summer long)
We've been having fun all summer long
(We've been having fun all summer long)
We've been having fun all summer long


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Wendy Lyrics


Time: 2:14 Irving Music, Inc. BMI
Master #52128 Recorded 4/??/64
On Extended Play Single "Four By The Beach Boys"
Which included: "Hushabye, "Little Honda",
"Wendy", and "Don't Back Down" (order unknown)
Released 9/21/64 (Capitol 5267)
Charted 10/17/64 Reached #44
Brian Wilson

Wendy, Wendy what went wrong
Oh so wrong
We went together for so long

I never thought a guy could cry
'Til you made it with another guy
Oh Wendy, Wendy left me alone
Hurt so bad

Wendy, Wendy don't lose your head
Lose your head
Wendy don't believe a word he says

I can't picture you with him
His future looks awful dim
Oh Wendy, Wendy left me alone
Hurt so bad

Wendy I wouldn't hurt you like that
No no no
I thought we had our love down pat
Guess I was wrong

The farthest thing from my mind
Was the day that I'd wake up to find
My Wendy
Wendy left me alone

Wendy, Wendy left me alone
Hurts so bad
Wendy, Wendy left me alone
Hurts so bad
Wendy, Wendy left me alone
Hurts so bad
Wendy, Wendy...


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Hushabye Lyrics


Time: 2:39 Rightsong Music BMI
Master #52125 Recorded 4/??/64
On Extended Play Single "Four By The Beach Boys"
Which included: Hushabye", "Little Honda",
"Wendy" and "Don't Back Down" (order unknown)
Released 9/21/64 (Capitol 5267)
Song did not chart
D. Pomus/M. Schuman

Oo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo
Ah ah ah ah
Oo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo
Ah ah ah ah
Oo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo
Ah ah ah ah

Hush hush
Hushabye
Hushabye
Hushabye
Oh my darlin' don't you cry
Guardian angels up above
Take care of the one I love

Oo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo
Ah ah ah ah

Hush hush
Hushabye

Oo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo
Ah ah ah ah

Hush hush
Hushabye

Oooo oooo oooo oooo

Lullabye and goodnight
In your dreams I hold you tight
Lullabye and goodnight
Til the dawn's early light

Pillows lying on your bed
Oh my darling rest your head
Sandman will be coming soon
Singing you a slumber tune

Oo ooo oooo oooo ooo ooo ooo
Hush
Hush
Hushabye
Oo ooo oooo oooo ooo ooo ooo
Hush
Hush
Hushabye
Oo ooo oooo oooo ooo ooo ooo

Oo ooo oooo oooo ooo ooo ooo
Ah ah ah ah


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When I Grow Up (To Be A Man) Lyrics


Time: 1:58 Irving Music, Inc. BMI
Master #52666 Recorded 8/5/64 & 8/10/64
Single Released 9/??/64 (Capitol-5245)
Charted 9/5/64 Reached #9
A side of "She Knows Me Too Well"
Brian Wilson

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 . . .)


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Wouldn't It Be Nice Lyrics


Time: Irving Music, Inc. BMI
Master #55558 Take 21
Music track recorded 1/22/66
Vocals added 3/10/66 and 4/11/66
Single Released 8/1/66 (Capitol 5706)
Charted 8/13/66 Reached #8
B side with "God Only Knows"
Brian Wilson/Tony Asher

Wouldn't it be nice if we were older
Then we wouldn't have to wait so long
And wouldn't it be nice to live together
In the kind of world where we belong

You know its gonna make it that much better
When we can say goodnight and stay together

Wouldn't it be nice if we could wake up
In the morning when the day is new
And after having spent the day together
Hold each other close the whole night through

Happy times together we've been spending
I wish that every kiss was neverending
Wouldn't it be nice

Maybe if we think and wish and hope and pray it might come true
Baby then there wouldn't be a single thing we couldn't do
We could be married
And then we'd be happy

Wouldn't it be nice

You know it seems the more we talk about it
It only makes it worse to live without it
But lets talk about it
Wouldn't it be nice


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California Girls Lyrics


Time: 2:34 Irving Music, Inc. BMI
Master #53865 Recorded 4/6/65
Single released 7/??/65 (Capitol-5464)
Charted 7/24/65 Reached #3
A side with "Let Him Run Wild"
Brian Wilson/(Mike Love uncredited lyricist)

Well East coast girls are hip
I really dig those styles they wear
And the Southern girls with the way they talk
They knock me out when I'm down there

The Midwest farmer's daughters
Really make you feel alright
And the Northern girls with the way they kiss
They keep their boyfriends warm at night

I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California girls

The West coast has the sunshine
And the girls all get so tanned
I dig a french bikini on Hawaii island dolls
By a palm tree in the sand

I been all around this great big world
And I seen all kinds of girls
Yeah, but I couldn't wait to get back in the states
Back to the cutest girls in the world

I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California girls

I wish they all could be California
(Girls, girls, girls yeah I dig the)
I wish they all could be California
(Girls, girls, girls yeah I dig the)
I wish they all could be California
(Girls, girls, girls yeah I dig the)
I wish they all could be California
(Girls, girls, girls yeah I dig the)


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Radio Spot #4 Lyrics


Time: 0:12

Where's your ID? What are your names?
Al
Bruce
Carl
Mike
Dennis
What are you guys?
The Beach Boys


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Concert Intro/Surfin' U.S.A.-Live 1964 Lyrics


Time: 3:16
Chuck Berry/Brian Wilson (uncredited lyricist)

Let's hear it
Look who came to sing
Louder
Are you ready for em?
Well let 'em know you're welcoming them come on
They can't hear you
Let's introduce 'em now the fabulous Beach Boys

We had a song out
We had a song out last summer that number one
Six or seven weeks in a row here in Sacramento
Now that's good
And it goes like this

If ev’rybody had an ocean across the U.S.A.,
Then ev’rybody’d be surfin’ like Californ-I-A.
You’d see ‘em wearin’ their baggies. Huarachi sandals, too.
A bushy bushy blonde hairdo. Surfin’ U.S.A.

You’ll catch ‘em surfin’ at Del Mar. Ventura County Line.
Santa Cruz and Trestles. Australia’s Narabine.
All over Manhattan, and down Doheny way.
Ev’rybody’s gone surfin’. Surfin’ U.S.A.

We’ll all be plannin’ out a route we’re gonna take real soon.
We’re waxin’ down our surfboards. We can’t wait for June.
We’ll all be gone for the summer. We’re on safari to stay.
Tell the teacher we’re surfin’. Surfin’ U.S.A.

At Haggarty’s and Swami’s. Pacific Palisades.
San Onofre and Sunset. Redondo Beach, L.A.
All over La Jolla, and Waimea Bay.
Ev’rybody’s gone surfin’. Surfin’ U.S.A.

Everybody's gone surfin'
Surfin' U.S.A.

Everybody's gone surfin'
Surfin' U.S.A


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Surfer Girl-Live 1964 Lyrics


Time: 2:52
Brian Wilson

Right now we'd like to do for you
The first slow song the Beach Boys recorded
It's called "Surfer Girl"

Little surfer little one
Made my heart come all undone
Do you love me, do you surfer girl
Surfer girl my little surfer girl

I have watched you on the shore
Standing by the ocean's roar
Do you love me do you surfer girl
Surfer girl surfer girl

We could ride the surf together
While our love would grow
In my Woody I would take you everywhere I go
So I say from me to you
I will make your dreams come true
Do you love me do you surfer girl
Surfer girl my little surfer girl
Little one
Girl surfer girl my little surfer girl
Little one
Girl surfer girl my little surfer girl

Are we alright down there?
You okay? Is she alright?
Brian
Oh boy
Mike I love you
Thank you


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Be True To Your School-Live 1964 Lyrics


Time: 2:29
Brian Wilson

Ohp that did it
See this guy over here?
That's my cousin Brian Wilson
Of course I'm his cousin too
Don't forget I'm Mike Love
Brian Wilson's cousin
This guy is always bragging about how athletic he was in high school and
everything
Throw a football seventy-five yards and all that
So we made up a song and it goes like this

When some loud braggart tries to put me down
And says his school is great
I tell him right away
"Now what's the matter buddy
Ain't you heard of my school
It's number one in the state"

Hey hey take it away
Let's call it a fight

So be true to your school now
(Rah rah rah rah sis boom bah)
Just like you would to your girl or guy
(Rah rah rah rah sis boom bah)
Be true to your school now
(Rah rah rah rah sis boom bah)
And let your colors fly
(Rah rah rah rah sis boom bah)
Be true to your school
(Rah rah rah)

I got a letterman's sweater
With a letter in front
I got for football and track
I'm proud to where it now
When I cruise around
The other parts of the town
I got a decal in back

So be true to your school now
(Rah rah rah rah sis boom bah)
Just like you would to your girl or guy
(Rah rah rah rah sis boom bah)
Be true to your school now
(Rah rah rah rah sis boom bah)
And let your colors fly
(Rah rah rah rah sis boom bah)
Be true to your school

Alright hit it

(Rah rah rah)
On Friday we'll be jacked up on the football game
And I'll be ready to fight
We're gonna smash 'em now
My girlfriend will be working on her pom-poms now
And she'll be yelling tonight

So be true to your school now
(Rah rah rah rah sis boom bah)
Just like you would to your girl or guy
(Rah rah rah rah sis boom bah)
Be true to your school now
(Rah rah rah rah sis boom bah)
And let your colors fly
(Rah rah rah rah sis boom bah)
Be true to your school

(Rah rah rah rah sis boom bah)
Don't let 'em down
(Rah rah rah rah sis boom bah)
Don't put it down
(Rah rah rah)


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Good Vibrations-Live 1966 Lyrics


Time: 5:15
Brian Wilson/Mike Love

Well
Hey hit the right note this time okay
What's the right note?
Play it this time
Probably an F C
Easy I haven't learned it yet
Hey man they expect me to play this woo-woo machine
This is ridiculous
Give me a note
Hey yeah it really is
Just for instance a note
We're talking of the E flat actually
We aren't too nervous for this song
Uh this is the second night we've tried it
If the light man would just dim the lights a little
In fact just turn them out I'd like to go look for a fire hydrant
Easy
Well enough for the locker room patter
Carl did so well on that last diddy
We thought he'd do another one
Wouldn't you Carl?
Yeah
Of course with the group's help you know
Okay he's gonna do our new song called "Good Vibrations"
Here we go
One two three

I, I love the colorful clothes she wears
And the way the sunlight plays upon her hair
I hear the sound of a gentle word
On the wind that lifts her perfume through the air

I'm pickin' up good vibrations
She's giving me excitations
I'm pickin' up good vibrations
(Oom bop bop good vibrations)
She's giving me excitations
(Oom bop bop excitations)
Good good good good vibrations
(Oom bop bop)
She's giving me excitations
(Oom bop bop excitations)
Good good good good vibrations
(Oom bop bop)
She's giving me excitations
(Oom bop bop excitations)

Close my eyes
She's somehow closer now
Softly smile, I know she must be kind
When I look in her eyes
She goes with me to a blossom world

I'm pickin' up good vibrations
She's giving me excitations
I'm pickin' up good vibrations
(Oom bop bop good vibrations)
She's giving me excitations
(Oom bop bop excitations)
Good good good good vibrations
(Oom bop bop)
She's giving me excitations
(Oom bop bop excitations)
Good good good good vibrations
(Oom bop bop)
She's giving me excitations
(Oom bop bop excitations)

(Ahhhhhhh)
(Ah my my)
I don't know where but she sends me there
(Ah my my what a sensation)
(Ah my my what elations)
(Ah my my what elation)

Gotta keep those lovin' good vibrations
A happenin' with her
Gotta keep those lovin' good vibrations
A happenin' with her
Gotta keep those lovin' good vibrations
A happenin' with her
Gotta keep those lovin' good vibrations
A happenin'

Ahhhhhhhh
Good good good good vibrations
(Oom bop bop)
(IÕm pickinÕ up good vibrations)
She's giving me excitations
(Oom bop bop)
(Excitations)
Good good good good vibrations
(Oom bop bop)
She's givin' me excitations

Na na na na na
Na na na
Na na na na na
Na na na
Do do do do do
Do do do
Do do do do do
Do do do

Hey uh
Thank you
Wow thank you very much
Thanks
Thank you
The Beach Boys
A real big hand for them folks


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Surfer Girl-Live 1967 Lyrics


Time: 2:18
Brian Wilson

Little surfer little one
Made my heart come all undone
Do you love me, do you surfer girl
Surfer girl my little surfer girl

I have watched you on the shore
Standing by the ocean's roar
Do you love me do you surfer girl
Surfer girl surfer girl

We could ride ride the surf together
While our love would grow
In my Woodie I would take you everywhere I go

So I say from me to you
I will make your dreams come true
Do you love me do you surfer girl
Ah ah ahhhhh

Okay
Okay
Groovy