Friday, April 7, 2023

"Lend Me Your Comb"

Yester-day, I was thinking about Carl Perkins' "Lend Me Your Comb," and I realized something that's also true of the Beatles' BBC version.  In the lines "Just wait till I / Straighten my tie," the semantic sense is spread across the line break, and this particular structure actually forces the listener to "wait" until the words in the second line complete the meaning.