"Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)"

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I listened to Pet Sounds yester-day, and then I learned the electric bass part for "Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)."  It starts about halfway through the first verse, so the beginning sounds a bit weird.  I have to specify that this is the electric bass part because I'm pretty sure there's also an acoustic bass part con arco.

There's a repeated glissando from a G# to a C#.  Or at least there's something of a glissando.  The G# slides down, but not all the way to C#.  I played the G# on the D string (6th fret) so it can't go all the way to C#.  I think it's that way on the recording too.  It's like an interrupted glissando.  In any case, that part comes after the line "Don't talk; put your head on my shoulder," so it could be interpreted as that movement - placing a head on a shoulder.