Monday, August 3, 2020

"Just Like a Woman"

In the lines "Ev'rybody knows that baby's got new clothes" in "Just Like a Woman," each of the four syllables of "Ev'rybody" is sung to a different pitch (C B A G), musically giving a sense of breadth.

While referencing the song in order to find those specific pitches, I also noticed that "fallen" in the lines "But lately I see her ribbons and her bows / Have fallen from her curls" is sung to two notes that form a fairly large descending interval (a fourth: E B), musically giving a sense of the word's meaning.

Both of these features are also present in Bob Dylan's version.