<P> In 2004, Wilson completed the track for his album Brian Wilson Presents Smile . This rerecorded version incorporated an additional set of lyrics penned by Parks . In 2011, the Beach Boys' version was released for the first time as part of The Smile Sessions box set . </P> <P> "Child is father of the man" is an idiom originating from the poem "My Heart Leaps Up" by William Wordsworth . In a 1966 interview, Wilson mistakenly attributed it to Karl Menninger, and added that the saying had fascinated him . There exist many different interpretations of the phrase, the most popular of which is man being the product of habits and behavior developed in youth . According to collaborator Van Dyke Parks, he brought up the idiom to Wilson . </P> <P> Brian had a fervent desire to re-invent himself as an individual, not as a boy, and that's what happened, I think . By the time I met him, he had already done "When I Grow Up (To Be A Man)"; he'd already raised the questions about being a man, and when I met him, that crisis was acute . I knew it was psychologically complex and over my head . The only way I could help with any of this, whatever it was he was going through, was refer him to that poem by Hawthorne (sic) from which the phrase "the child is father to the man" comes . He used it as part of his inquiry of Smile, as a lyric . </P> <P> Several sections of the song were recorded, but aside from a group piano demo, only one variation of the chorus's backing track was overdubbed with vocals sung in elaborate musical rounds . According to The Smile Sessions compiler Mark Linett, "When he's not singing, you can hear faint background vocal parts that no longer exist on the multitrack . They must have been in his headphones, and were picked up by the vocal mic . It could be that Brian decided he didn't need them, or that he was going to re-record them, but never did . You hear this sort of stuff throughout the tapes ." The song was worked on between October and December 1966 . After one more revisit in April 1967, the track was abandoned forever by the group . </P>

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