![]() This blog is a workshop for developing my analyses of The Beatles' music. ![]() This will be most easily understood visually (click the graphic to enlarge): Since the chorus both starts and ends with the same title lyrics, these contiguous choruses overlap, resulting in slightly shorter choruses than heard earlier in the song. Tell Me Why follows a pattern not unlike what weve heard before in the Lennon / McCartney catalog (namely It Wont Be Long) which incorporates and. ![]() It is also the 8th Beatles song so far to use contiguous choruses (following "Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey", "I'm Down", "Think For Yourself", "Good Day Sunshine", "It's All Too Much", "All You Need Is Love", and "Blue Jay Way"). All I do is hang my head and moan Tell me why you cried, and why you lied to me Tell me why you cried, and why you lied to me If theres something I have said or done Tell me what and Ill apologize If you dont, I really cant go on Holding back these tears in my eyes Tell me why you cried, and why you lied to me Tell me why you cried, and why. ![]() Formal structure of "Cry Baby Cry":Ĭomments: This is the 10th Beatles song so far to open with a chorus (following "She Loves You", "It Won't Be Long", "Can't Buy Me Love", "Any Time at All", "When I Get Home", "Another Girl", "You're Going to Lose That Girl", "Nowhere Man", and "Eleanor Rigby"). Song Structure and Style 'Tell Me Why' follows a pattern not unlike what weve heard before in the Lennon / McCartney catalog (namely 'It Wont Be Long') which incorporates and highlights the use of the refrain.The full run-down in this pattern is refrain/ verse/ refrain/ verse/ refrain/ bridge/ refrain, which would become ababaca. ![]()
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