"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.

"Lend Me Your Comb"

I listened to the first disc of On Air - Live at the BBC, Volume 2 this morning and noticed something about "Lend Me Your Comb" (and in referencing the liner notes, I discovered that this is the same recording as that on Anthology 1).  The lines "Unless we come in / The way we went out" have opposite melodic arcs to portray those opposite directions.  "Unless we come in" generally ascends (G# A G# A B), and "The way we went out" generally descends (G# A G# F# E).

I also noticed that "home" in the line "We gotta go home" is sung to the tonic note (E), musically giving a sense of "home."

These features are also present in Carl Perkins' version, which - according to the liner notes - is what the Beatles based their version on.