"I Don't Want to Know"

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I have a binder in which I've been keeping the tabs, chord progressions, and occasional notation I've written down, and I looked in there last night to see what I had for "I Don't Want to Know."  I found that I had the whole twelve-string part (which I still remembered), but I didn't have the bass part (which I'd forgotten).  So I had to relearn the bass part, and then I wrote it down.

While writing it down, I realized that this does the same thing as "I Remember When I Loved Her" (the bass part to which I also need to re-learn) and "Time of the Season."  I mentioned about a year ago that the bass parts during the solos in those songs are the same as the bass parts during the verses but with extra notes.  The solo in "I Don't Want to Know" is much shorter (I think only eight bars) and on guitar rather than a keyboard instrument, but there's a similar feature here.  However, it's slightly different in that there are more notes rhythm-wise, not pitch-wise.  It's the same D, E, G, F# phrase, but with four notes of each pitch where there are only two or three of each in the verses.