Please let me wonderBeach Boys

"Please Let Me Wonder" — from Today! (1965). One of the most underrated songs in the Beach Boys' catalogue.

Капо 5 лад → C, Dm7, G7, C7, Am7, Dm, E7, Am, Em, G, A7, D, D7
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"Please Let Me Wonder"
(Brian Wilson / Mike Love)
Intro:
(guitar doubled w/piano):
v v
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-0-3-2-|---
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(wordless vocals enter)
  F                Gm7
/ / / / / / / / / / / /
(guitar doubled w/piano and bass):
   C7                F
v v v v v
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-1-----3-1-------|---
-----------0-3-2-|---
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  F                Gm7       C7
/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Verse 1:
F [Fmaj7] F7 [2: Fmaj7 implied by harmonies]
Now here we are together
  Bb                          C7
This would have been worth waiting forever
F Dm7 Gm7 C7 [1: w/intro riff]
I always knew it'd feel this way
F [Fmaj7] F7 [2: Fmaj7 implied by harmonies]
And please forgive my shaking
   Bb                Gm       A7
Can't you tell my heart is breaking
Dm Dm/maj7 Dm7 Am Bb
Can't make myself say what I plan to say
Chorus:
Gm7/C F [harmonies imply F9]
(Baby, please let me wonder)
                    D7
If I've been the one you love
(please let me wonder)
Gm7 Gm7/C
If I'm who you're dreaming of
(please let me wonder...
[1, 2: Fmaj7 Gm7/C]
[3, 4: Cm7/F Fmaj7]
...love) [3: (spoken) I love you]
Verse 2:
I built all my goals around you
That someday my love would surround you
You'll never know what we've been through
For so long I've thought about it
And now I just can't live without it
This beautiful image I have of you
Instrumental break (organ and guitar):
    A7       Dm
/ / / / / / / /
    A7       Dm
/ / / / / / / /
Dm7/G G7
/ / / / / / / /
Gm7/C
/ / / / / / / /
[repeat chorus to fade (instrumental on repeat)]
-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers

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  • From Today! (1965). The album where Brian Wilson began transitioning toward Pet Sounds — more sophisticated chord progressions, more introspective lyrics, more complex vocal arrangements.