The Beach Boys – Caroline No (Bass Tab)

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Written by Tony Asher and Brian Wilson; released as a solo Brian Wilson single with "Summer Means New Love" as the B-side, and on the album "Pet Sounds".
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  (tambourine and some other percussion instrument playing)

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          Where   did        your long hair   go,

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            where is the girl I   used to     know?

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          How     could       you lose    that    happy       glow?

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                      Oh, Caroline,   no!

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          Who     took       that look a  -   way?

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          I   remember    how you used to     say

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          You'd   ne- ver     change,     but     that's not  true,

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                      oh, Caroline,   you.            Break   my

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  heart       I       want    to  go  and cry,            It's so

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  sad         to  watch       a   sweet   die.        Oh, Caroline,
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      why?

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          Could I e- ver find in  you a   -   gain

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          things  made me love you so much    then?
              that

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          Could we ever bring 'em back    once    they have   gone?

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                                                      Oh, Caroline,

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      no!

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