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Grab your board and go sidewalk surfin' with me...
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Don't be afraid to try the newest sport around
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(Bust your buns, bust your buns now)
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It's catchin' on in every city and town
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You can do the tricks the surfers do, just try a
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"Quasimodo" or "The Coffin" too (why don't you)
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Grab your board and go sidewalk surfin' with me...
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You'll probably wipeout when you first try to shoot the curve
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(Bust your buns, bust your buns now)
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Takin' gas in a bush takes a lotta nerve...
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Those hopscotch poledads and pedestrians, too, will bug ya...
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Shout "Cuyabunga!" now and skate right on through (why don't you)
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Grab your board and go sidewalk surfin' with me...
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You can do the tricks the surfers do, just try a
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"Quasimodo" or "The Coffin" too (why don't you)
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Grab your board and go sidewalk surfin' with me...
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So get your girl and take her tandem down the street
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(Bust your buns, bust your buns now)
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Then she'll know you're an asphalt athlete.
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A downhill grade, man, will give you a kick,
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But if the sidewalk's cracked, ya better pull out quick (why don't you)
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Grab your board and go sidewalk surfin' with me...
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(Skateboard with me, why don't you skateboard me?)
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Grab your board and go sidewalk surfin' with me...
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(Skateboard with me, why don't you skateboard me?)
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Grab your board and go sidewalk surfin' with me...
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(Skateboard with me, why don't you skateboard me?)
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Grab your board and go sidewalk surfin' with me...
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(Skateboard with me, why don't you skateboard me?)
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Grab your board and go sidewalk surfin' with me...(FADE OUT)
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A couple of notes (from [email protected]): This song uses some words,
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slang
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and phrases that were popular with surfers back when the song was a hit on
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the
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radio (late 1964). Doing a "Quasimodo" (named after the Hunchback of Notre
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Dame character) or "The Coffin" were two maneuvers a surfer could perform on
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a
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board. For example, doing "The Coffin" was to lie on your back on your board
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and ride it in with your arms folded over your chest, eyes closed, as if you
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were lying dead in a coffin. "Takin' gas" means the same as "wiping out" --
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as in, "My board flipped out from under me and the next thing I knew I was
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takin' gas!" And, since skateboarders were "surfing" on concrete or asphalt,
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you were liable to "bust your buns" if you fell. Also, sidewalk surfers
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(skateboarders) faced the hazards of pedestrians as well as kids playing
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hopscotch on the sidewalk -- "hopscotch-poledads" -- "poledads" being a term
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similar to "gremmie" or "dweeb" that surfers used to describe an annoying
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geek
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or nerd. And, lastly, in the song, Jan Berry uses the surfing battle cry
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"Cuyabunga!" (a slight variation on "Cowabunga!") -- a word that, today,
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still
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surfaces occasionally.
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Sidewalk Surfin
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| Jan & Dean |
