This cover sits squarely between The Searchers’ version from 1964 and Jackie Deshannon’s original 1963 version, with a LOT of 12-string Rickenbacker thrown in for good measure. The Searchers’ more frenetic version was one of the seminal songs from the British Invasion era, at least for me. But I like Jackie’s more deliberate version a little better. The lyric segment below combines elements of both, including some lines that the Searchers left out–which, to me, changes the meaning of the song in fairly significant ways.
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Because I saw her today, I saw her face, it was a face I loved
I can’t let go, although I know, she’ll make me cry
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Until the day I die, but people
I got to live now, oh yeah and
I can forgive now.
Yea, when it begins uh
He’ll feel those needles and pins
A-hurtin’ him…