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So is it possible to find the original lyrics of the instrumental "Let's Go Away for Awhlie", which was eventually unused in the final track?

Possible?  Maybe.  Probable?  No.

As far as I know there's never been any indication of what any lyrics might have been.  There are no unused vocals as such, no vocals were ever recorded, and whatever vocals might have been recorded, we don't know whether there were lyrics.  Might have just been oohs and ahhs. 

If Brian or Tony Asher or Marilyn Wilson or someone had a notebook or something like that with these lyrics, they'd probably have surfaced by now.

For me, "the one that got away" is Child is Father of the Man.  So much discussion about and work on that song in 1966, and yet we (likely) don't have the original verse lyrics and melody. What the heck was the CIFOTM "cowboy song" that Dennis played on piano for the reporter in London?

Ive always wondered about this, though I absolutely think the track works better as an instrumental anyway.

I would like to see where this idea of LGAFA with lyrics originates from, because unless theres a vintage Brian interview out there (and there may well be, I dont know) it strikes me as one of those self perpetuating myths. Like someone said that and it got repeated enough times (because it's an interesting factoid that invites speculation on the unknown) that everyone just takes it as a given. ("This publication says it had lyrics!" Yeah but how do they know? "Because this other source also said it!")

For whatever it's worth, Tony Asher denies he wrote anything for it, and I doubt Mike did or we probably would've heard him raise that as a point of contention by now. http://albumlinernotes.com/Tony_Asher_Interview.html (http://albumlinernotes.com/Tony_Asher_Interview.html)