Saturday, August 25, 2018

"I've Got a Feeling"

When I listened to Let It Be yester-day, I noticed a small thing about a section near the end of "I've Got a Feeling."  I'm unsure about my transcription of one of the lines.  The first time (~2:32), it sounds like "Ev'rybody put the fool down," but when it's repeated (~3:06), it sounds more like "Ev'rybody put their foot down."  Anyway, it's something like:
Ev'rybody had a good year
Ev'rybody let their hair down
Ev'rybody pulled their socks up
Ev'rybody put the fool down
The melody goes up or down at the end of these phrases in order to represent musically the "down"s and "up" in the lyrics.  "Hair down" and "fool down" are both sung with descents (B F#), and "socks up" is with with an ascent (A B).