Thursday, July 11, 2019

"I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry (Over You)"

I listened to the first disc of Live at the BBC yester-day and noticed a few small things in "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry (Over You)," specifically about the first two lines of second verse:
I'm gonna love you more and more ev'ry day
I'm gonna love you more and more ev'ry way
The second "more" in each line is sung with a melisma (G E), musically giving a sense of amount.

Similarly, "way" in the second line is sung with a melisma (F D), musically giving a sense of the variety of "ev'ry."