I'd forgotten about this until yester-day, but when I listened to the first disc of the deluxe edition of
Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. earlier this month (6 Nov.), I noticed that many of the "Goin' down"s in "Goin' Down" are sung to descending phrases, musically illustrating that "down." I'm not going to go through each instance of that phrase in the song, but most of the "Goin' down"s in the first half are sung to the phrase G G E.