"I Got a Woman"

I've been listening to Ray Charles lately, and to-day I noticed something in "I Got a Woman" that's also present in the live versions the Beatles did for the BBC.  "All day and night" in the first line of the bridge ("She's there to love me all day and night") is a merism.

"I Got a Woman"

I listened to the first disc of Live at the BBC yester-day and noticed a few small points.

In the verse at the very end of "I Got a Woman," both "way" and "town" in the line "Way 'cross town" are sung with melismas (C# C# and D# C# B respectively).  Since both of these are drawn out, there's a musical sense of that distance.

This feature is also present in the version on On Air - Live at the BBC, Volume 2.

I referenced the versions by Ray Charles (who wrote the song) and Elvis Presley.  The Beatles' version follows Elvis' version (in E major rather than Charles' A major, with the last verse at a slower tempo, and with "Way 'cross town" in place of Charles' "Way over town" [although Elvis does go back to "Way over town" for the last verse]), but Elvis' version doesn't have these melismas (not at the end at least; he does occasionally sing "town" to the notes A B).