Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
I received a request a few weeks ago from @BobStrnad222 to see if I could have a go at this song. As is happening far too often lately, although I had worked on it at that time, It slipped my mind and it was only yesterday that I was reminded of it, so I recorded it then and am uploading it now.
Surfin' USA was recorded by The Beach Boys in1963, and used the music from an older song, Chuck Berry's 'Sweet Sixteen', and is therefore attributed to Brian Wilson, Chuck Berry, and Mike Love.
My 12-string guitar is tuned one tone lower than my 6 string ones, so with the capo at 2nd fret, the chords are the ones shown in the annotations.
I received a request a few weeks ago from @BobStrnad222 to see if I could have a go at this song. As is happening far too often lately, although I had worked on it at that time, It slipped my mind and it was only yesterday that I was reminded of it, so I recorded it then and am uploading it now.
Surfin' USA was recorded by The Beach Boys in1963, and used the music from an older song, Chuck Berry's 'Sweet Sixteen', and is therefore attributed to Brian Wilson, Chuck Berry, and Mike Love.
My 12-string guitar is tuned one tone lower than my 6 string ones, so with the capo at 2nd fret, the chords are the ones shown in the annotations.
