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keyboard and singing the melody "down down down down down d-down". He thought it was a bad idea, "like the Beach Boys, but with a lot of weird chord changes going on." Henderson saw potential, and decided the words were "Gone gone gone she's been gone so long, she's been gone gone gone so long." From
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