"Hey Jude"´s "pega o cavaquinho" - (big) help wanted

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"Hey Jude"´s "pega o cavaquinho" - (big) help wanted

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Hey, guys!

Demixing technology has come such a long way and so many nice friends at the forum have been doing the most amazing jobs, I thought maybe someone would feel intrigued enough to make this big favor to the Brazilian Beatles fans community...

As you may have heard, at 5´37" into "Hey Jude", Paul says what to us Portuguese native speakers sounds like "Pega o cavaquinho". Cavaquinho is a very typical Brazilian instrument, somewhat similar to ukelele, but with steel strings, commonly used in Brazilian popular music such as samba and chorinho (which, by the way, I recommend).

It´s been said that what Paul really says is "The pain won´t come back, Jude". But I can´t hear that at all. All I can hear is the awful "Pega o cavaquinho" line, which of course is totally out of context. You know when you notice some detail, then you can never listen to a song the same way again? That´s the case.

I thought maybe someone would feel like enhacing the "The pain won´t come back, Jude" line, so that it would be more audible to non-native English speakers. I love "Hey Jude", but this is something that gets in the way everytime I listen to it. I thought if I can get to the actual words maybe I can exorcise it. At the very least is a curious oddity.

Thank you very much!

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What are you hearing? Gibberish for me.
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"Way, no, go back, June" is what it sounds like to me...which makes even less sense than "The pain won't come back, Jude." But this isolation certainly does make it easier to hear the "f*ckin' 'ell" at 2:58.

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Track06 wrote: Wed Feb 23, 2022 5:05 pm hxxps://www.transferxl.com/download/084TCmKv3dLQM
What are you hearing? Gibberish for me.
Thank you very very much, Track06!
It does make it a bit more possible to figure what´s being said there.
Maybe something to do with something being in or out of tune?
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I think it's "Hey, no go back, Jude" or something similar. Sounds more like "June" than "Jude", but "Jude" makes more sense.
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Sounds like " Paint he vacuum " to me
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For me, it will forever sound like pega o cavaquinho LOL
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Does it mean anything that when you play it backwards, it says, "Who's Albert Finney?"?
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For me, it sounds like 'Pain on the back, Jude', presumably because of the movement is on the shoulder.
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Post by hogshead of hellfire »

Get a normal resolution audio file and slow the pitch of that spot down by .7%: it sounds (then) like Paul is using the same phrase he throws in during the end coda of Back In the U.S.S.R. (recorded three weeks after "Jude") --- "Hey, look I'm back".
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