Add the echoing "So good, so good" to Sweet Caroline behind the chorus's first two lines.

The Issue

Have you, personally, ever felt betrayed? Of course you have. We all have at some point in our lives. Recently, while on vacation, a friend and I recall a specific incident where we felt we were blindsided; potentially along with many others. As we sat in the car whilst driving back home, a favorite tune of ours came on: Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond. We happily obliged in singing along, laughing through the verses and belting out the chorus. As the first chorus approached, we got ready, and when it arrived we sang our hearts out. "Sweet Caroline" Bum bum bum "Good times never seemed so good, so good, so good!" But after the words left our mouths, our brows furrowed in confusion. Neil Diamond never repeated "so good" more than once. Was this in our heads? We waited for the next and final chorus until we confirmed that Neil, indeed did not, repeat those words. We asked her mom if he did, in fact, echo "so good" in the first half of the chorus and she too said that he did, and we must've just talked over it. We knew the truth. After deep diving and researching the lyrics thoroughly, our suspicions were confirmed. We of course know of the Mandela Affect, but swore he just had to have said it at some point. After confronting my very own parents about this, they say that this was just added on by the audience and never sung by Neil himself. So where had we gone wrong? The media and known commercials such as, but not limited to the Jim Beam commercial have added to our ever-so wrong beliefs of these lyrics. We do not wish for this awful conclusion to have to be made by other unassuming individuals like ourselves, so we ask you, our fellow humans, to end the suffering and sign our petition for the repetition of "so good" to be legally added to the song, so that we may all forever sing this song how we always dreamed it would be across the world.

 

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The Issue

Have you, personally, ever felt betrayed? Of course you have. We all have at some point in our lives. Recently, while on vacation, a friend and I recall a specific incident where we felt we were blindsided; potentially along with many others. As we sat in the car whilst driving back home, a favorite tune of ours came on: Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond. We happily obliged in singing along, laughing through the verses and belting out the chorus. As the first chorus approached, we got ready, and when it arrived we sang our hearts out. "Sweet Caroline" Bum bum bum "Good times never seemed so good, so good, so good!" But after the words left our mouths, our brows furrowed in confusion. Neil Diamond never repeated "so good" more than once. Was this in our heads? We waited for the next and final chorus until we confirmed that Neil, indeed did not, repeat those words. We asked her mom if he did, in fact, echo "so good" in the first half of the chorus and she too said that he did, and we must've just talked over it. We knew the truth. After deep diving and researching the lyrics thoroughly, our suspicions were confirmed. We of course know of the Mandela Affect, but swore he just had to have said it at some point. After confronting my very own parents about this, they say that this was just added on by the audience and never sung by Neil himself. So where had we gone wrong? The media and known commercials such as, but not limited to the Jim Beam commercial have added to our ever-so wrong beliefs of these lyrics. We do not wish for this awful conclusion to have to be made by other unassuming individuals like ourselves, so we ask you, our fellow humans, to end the suffering and sign our petition for the repetition of "so good" to be legally added to the song, so that we may all forever sing this song how we always dreamed it would be across the world.

 

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Neil Diamond
Neil Diamond

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