I recently listened to a compilation album of Sam Cooke and realized that in the line "If you ever change your mind" in "Bring It on Home to Me," the "mind" is sung with a melisma (E D), musically indicating that "change" through the shift from one pitch to an-other. Of course, then I started thinking about the Zombies' version. It has the same feature, but the melisma is broader; "mind" is sung to the phrase B C# E F# E.
In referencing both versions now to find specific pitches, I also noticed something exclusive to the Zombies' version. Every verse in Cooke's original ends with some variation of "Baby, bring it to me, bring your sweet lovin' / Bring it on home to me," and the live version of "You've Really Got a Hold on Me/Bring It on Home to Me" by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles that the Zombies based their version on follows this, but the Zombies' version has "on home" instead of "to me" ("Whoa, bring it on home, bring your sweet lovin' / Bring it on home to me"). That "home" in "Whoa, bring it on home..." is sung to an A note, and since their version is in A major, that's the tonic or home note.
I also discovered that the second syllable of the melisma'd "me" in the line "Bring it home to me" that ends every verse is sung to an A note, so there's a musical representation of "bring[ing] it home" there too.
