In 1965, the song was covered in an up-tempo version, with slightly altered lyrics and melody, by the California pop quintet We Five. Their recording reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in September 1965 and topped the Billboard easy listening chart for five weeks.
Billboard ranked the record as the #4 song of 1965.

The performance by We Five is noteworthy for the gradual buildup in intensity, starting off somewhat flowing and gentle, increasing in intensity in the third stanza and remaining so through the fourth stanza. The fifth and final stanza starts off gently and concludes very intensely, ending with a series of guitar chords.

This is a gender bender for me. As you can see, the lead singer in this group is female and I am singing this in the original key. I tried stepping it down but, the background singers sounded like croaking frogs....lol

This was a tremennnnndddddddddous stretch for these old pipes....lol