"Add Some Music to Your Day"

I've been listening to Sunflower pretty regularly lately, and I noticed a couple things about "Add Some Music to Your Day."  To-day I listened to the 2000 re-issue of Sunflower and Surf's Up on the same CD because to-day's Paul Atkinson's birthday (he co-produced the re-issue [and was the original guitarist for the Zombies]), and I transcribed the majority of the lyrics.

The first line is "The Sunday mornin' gospel goes good with the soul."  "Soul" can have two meanings here.  There's "soul" in the same sense it has in later lines like "Music / When you're alone / Is like a companion / For your lonely soul" and "Music is in my soul."  And there's also "soul" in the sense of the music genre.  Gospel is mentioned in the same line, and the next line continues this cataloguing of genres:  "There's blues, folk, and country, and rock like a rollin' stone."  I think "soul" in the sense of a person's intangible essence is the primary meaning, but the other sense is certainly relevant too.

The other thing I noticed is the "Ev'rywhere" in the backing vocals during the section where the lyrics are just "Add some music" over and over.  It's sung with a melisma, with the "-where" part sung to the notes E B C# B.  Its being sung to more than one syllable and to a variety of pitches is a musical representation of the "ev'rywhere."

"Cool, Cool Water"

Last month, I learned the bass part for the first section of the version of "Cool, Cool Water" that's on the Sunflower album.  Recently, I notated it (after re-learning what I'd forgotten and discovering that I'd been playing some notes in the wrong octave), and then I compared it to the version from The SMiLE Sessions (the one labelled "version 2").  It's pretty much the same.  The SMiLE Sessions version alternates between Bb and F for a few more measures, and a G note that's a single half note in the Sunflower version is two notes in The SMiLE Sessions version:  a dotted quarter note and an eighth note.

Since it's just one part, I'm not going to record a version (I decided it's not worth it unless I know two simultaneous parts), so here's the notation:

"Barnyard"

Yester-day I listened to the second disc of The SMiLE Sessions [Deluxe Edition Box Set], and I noticed that in "Barnyard," there's a piano phrase that nearly doubles the vocal melody (I think it leaves out a few notes).  It sounded easy, so I figured it out.  I also noticed that the bass has double stops, where in my previous recording, I'd played just single notes.  While I was correcting that, I discovered that the bass part changes about halfway through the song.  First, it's just quarter notes:

But then about halfway through, it changes to a dotted rhythm:

I referenced the version on the 2004 SMiLE, and it doesn't have that dotted section; it maintains the quarter notes throughout the song.

When I recorded my new version, I tried the guitar part on electric twelve-string, which sounds a bit closer to what the original recording has.  I referenced The SMiLE Sessions booklet for details about the instrumentation on the track, and it seemed equally confused about whether it's an electric or acoustic guitar.