Caroline, No
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Original Album
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Pet Sounds
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Single
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Caroline, No / Summer Means New Love
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Written By
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Brian Wilson/Tony Asher
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Produced By
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Brian Wilson
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Lead Vocals
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Brian
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Recorded On
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31 January 1966
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Length
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2:51
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Notes
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- Recorded at Western Studios
- Hal Blaine played an upside-down and empty Sparkletts water bottle to acheive the percussive effects that open the song
- Tony Asher originally had the lyric as "Carol I Know", which Brian heard as "Caroline, No"
- This "Pet Sounds" closer can be seen as a "loss of innocence" for Brian, or maybe the world around him. The closing effects of a train and Brian's dogs (Banana and Louie) provide an eerie and possibly symbolic close to "Pet Sounds."
- An astonishing song -virtually has me in tears even though I've heard it hundreds of times
- Single release was under the name "Brian Wilson"
- Brian revived this song for the "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times" album
- Lyrics
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Where did your long hair go
Where is the girl I used to know
How could you lose that happy glow
Oh, Caroline no
Who took that look away
I remember how you used to say
You'd never change, but that's not true
Oh, Caroline you
Break my heart
I want to go and cry
It's so sad to watch a sweet thing die
Oh, Caroline why
Could I ever find in you again
The things that made me love you so much then
Could we ever bring 'em back once they have gone
Oh, Caroline no
- Chords
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(original key: Fm)
Em7/G...............Dm7/C
Where did your long hair go
Em7/G....................Dm7/C
Where is the girl I used to know
Em7/G...............Gm7.......Gm7/C..Fmaj9/C
How could you lose that happy glow
.....................Fmaj9
Oh Caroline, No
Em7/G.............Dm7/C
Who took that look away
Em7/G.......................Dm7/C
I remember how you used to say
Em7/G...........Gm7.........Gm7/C....Fmaj9/C
You'd never change, but that's not true
.....................Fmaj9
Oh Caroline, you
.................Dm7......G7....Cmaj7
Break my heart, I want to go and cry
...........Bm7-5..E7-9...Am7
It's so sad to watch a sweet thing die
......................Fm6/Ab
Oh Caroline, why
Em7/G.....................Dm7/C
Could I ever find in you again
Em7/G......................................Dm7/C
Things that made me love you so much then
Em7/G................................Gm7.......Gm7/C.....Fmaj9/C
Could we ever bring them back once they had gone
.....................Fmaj9
Oh Caroline, no
Chart prepared by Francis Greene
- Sheet Music
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