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I got the Live at the Hollywood Bowl album for Christmas, and I finally listened to it to-day. I discovered something about "You Can't Do That" that should have been obvious when I listened to A Hard Day's Night every week a couple years ago: the "down"s in the lines "I'm gonna let you down" and "I think I let you down" have descending melismas. I referenced the studio version and found that each "down" in "I'm gonna let you down" is sung to the phrase C Bb G, but the "down" in "I think I let you down" is just C Bb. However, in both instances, there's a musical representation of the "down-ness."
