"Sometimes"

I listened to Begin Here a few days ago (on 25 November because one of the recording sessions for the album was on 25 November 1964), and I noticed a small feature in "Sometimes," which is included as a bonus track on the CD.

The line "I've been hurt so many times before" is sung to a melody something like this:

(I'm not completely sure of the key, although the song does end with a D major chord.)

There's a denser concentration of notes for the word "many" (sung to a pair of sixteenth notes), and to some degree, this gives a sense of its meaning.