For what it's worth, Jeff Lynne comments on the two versions of the song in this interview (starting at ~23:28).
Investigating the music of the Electric Light Orchestra while trying to learn all of the parts.
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
"Do Ya"
In some ways, Electric Light Orchestra formed out of a band called the Move. For Christmas last year, I got a compilation album of the Move (Magnetic Waves of Sound: The Best of the Move), and I've been listening to it fairly regularly. One of the tracks is an earlier recording of "Do Ya" (the Move version includes a question mark: "Do Ya?"), and I recently noticed a small difference between the two. In the Move version, two of the lines are "They come a-runnin' just to get a look / Just to feel, to touch her long black veil." In the ELO version, one word has been changed so that these lines are "They come a-runnin' just to get a look / Just to feel, to touch her long black hair." This probably isn't a very significant difference, but I thought I'd note it all the same.
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