"You Can't Do That"

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In transcribing the lyrics to "You Can't Do That," I found two interesting things, both of which are in the bridge.

There's internal rhyme (of a sort) in the line "'Cause I'm the one who won your love."  One and won are homophones, so I'm not sure if that technically counts as internal rhyme, but - nevertheless - it's still an interesting element.

Near the end of the bridge, there are some ambiguous lines.  They could be rendered as:

But if they'd seen
You talkin' that way
They'd laugh in my face

Or as:

But if they'd seen
You talk in that way
They'd laugh in my face

Either way is valid, but I think I prefer that second rendering because the last two lines have structural parallelism:  "You talk in that way" and "They'd laugh in my face" are both [subject*] [verb] [preposition] [adjective] [object of the preposition].

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*with a contracted verb in the second instance ("They'd").