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I just listened to the second disc of the Beatles' Anthology 2. I noticed a small thing about "And Your Bird Can Sing" (and I also checked the final version on Revolver to verify that it's there too). There's a downward vocal melisma on the "down" in the lines "When your prized possessions / Start to weigh you down." Like the melisma on "heavy" that I discovered in "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" earlier this month, this melisma gives a sense of the weight; it's as if the word itself is bent.
