Yester-day I listened to the second disc of the deluxe edition of More of the Monkees, and I noticed a couple small things about "I'll Be Back up on My Feet" (the first recorded version, which is included as a bonus track).
There's quite a musical leap at the end of the line "Maybe I will meet a girl who'll try to keep me down" in the second verse. "Try to keep me" ascends (C# C# D E), but then there's a drop of almost an octave for "down," sung to an F#. This descent musically represents the "keep[ing]... down" in the lyric.
The other thing I noticed is that the "go" in the last "When I find my boots, I know I gotta go" is sung with a melisma (D A F#), musically giving a sense of that movement.
