"Wind Chimes"

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Recently I'd been reading Peter Ames Carlin's Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson.  I finished it last week.

Near the end, Carlin quotes from "Wind Chimes" - "Now and then, a tear rolls off my cheek."  It got me thinking about the music that accompanies that part, and I realized that after that line (in both the 1966 and 2004 versions), there's a glissando on (I think) xylophone followed by a staccato note.  Presumably, that glissando is the tear running off the cheek, and the staccato note is the tear falling off and hitting an-other surface.

I checked the version of "Wind Chimes" from Smiley Smile, but that glissando and staccato note aren't present there.