"Love Me Do"

I was thinking about "Love Me Do" this afternoon and realized a small ambiguity in the repeated line "Love, love me do."  The first "love" could be either an imperative (as the second "love" is) or a vocative.

"You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"

I recently listened to a 3-CD set of Chuck Berry and discovered that the first line of the Beatles' "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" has a strong resemblance to the first line of Berry's "Confessin' the Blues" (written by McShann and Brown).  Excepting one, all of the words in the first half of the line "Here I stand, head in hand, turn my face to the wall" also appear in the line "Baby, here I stand before you with my heart in my hand."

I've written before about how one of the lines in "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" seems to demonstrate Bob Dylan's influence, but the similarity between these two lines and the fact that both are the first line seem to indicate Berry's influence, which is obvious elsewhere in the Beatles' catalogue.

"She Said She Said"

I listened to Revolver earlier this week, and I was thinking about "She Said She Said" yester-day and realized a small thing about it.  In the repeated line "Ev'rything was right," the three syllables of "Ev'rything" are each sung to a different pitch (F Eb D), musically giving a sense of breadth.