"Surf's Up"

I recently found a note from last month that I forgot to write about here.  In the Beach Boys' Instagram stories, I'd heard a clip of "Surf's Up," and I realized that in the first section (roughly until ~1:36), the bass plays mostly on the up-beats, perhaps in order to emphasize the "up" in the title phrase.  Here's the notation for the first verse (with the standard disclaimer that I may have something wrong):

Aside from the last two measures, the bass part in the second verse is the same.

"Funky Pretty"

Off and on over the last three months or so, I transcribed the lyrics from the liner notes of my edition of Holland into Google Documents for each of the songs so that they're easier to reference.  When I transcribed "Funky Pretty" this morning, I noticed a significant structural change in the third verse.

There are two vocal parts in the verses.  Each sings different lyrics, but they converge on the last word in each line, which is either the same or a perfect rhyme ("romance" and "romance," "glance" and "dance," and "dance" and "glance" in the first verse, "gold" and "gold," "old" and "bold," and "told" and "told" in the second).  This structure is broken in the third verse, though, where these simultaneously sung words are "ours" and "hours," "hours" and "stars," and "stars" and "powers."  This difference in the structure matches the theme of some of the lyrics in that verse:  "Her calendar is not like ours" and "The hieroglyphs mark changing hours."

"Help Me, Rhonda"

I was thinking about "Help Me, Rhonda" yester-day, and I realized that the line "She was gonna be my wife, and I was gonna be her man" contains a sort of chiasm (she | my || I | her).  This structure reflects the reciprocity that this relationship had before "she let another guy come between us."

While referencing the recording to verify the lyrics, I also noticed that "fine" in the line "Well, Rhonda, you look so fine" is sung with a melisma (C# B# A# in the lead vocals), giving a sense of degree (for "so").

These features are also present in the version on Today! ("Help Me, Ronda").