"I Feel Fine"

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I happened to hear "I Feel Fine" on the radio at McDonald's to-night, and I noticed something about the third verse:

That her baby buys her things, you know
He buys her diamond rings, you know
She said so
She’s in love with me, and I feel fine, ooh

"Things" rhymed with "diamond rings" is also a feature of two verses of "Can't Buy Me Love."  There's some similarity with the first lines of the first verse ("a diamond ring" rhymes with "anything"):

I'll buy you a diamond ring, my friend
If it makes you feel alright
I'll get you anything, my friend
If it makes you feel alright

But there's a greater similarity with the first lines of the third verse ("diamond rings" rhymes with "kind of things"):

Say you don't need no diamond rings
And I'll be satisfied
Tell me that you want the kind of things
That money just can't buy