"I Wanna Be Free"

I listened to the first disc of the deluxe edition of The Monkees this morning and noticed a small feature in "I Wanna Be Free."  The line "Walk along the sand" is sung to a (mostly) conjunct melody (B D C B A), and because the melody is step-wise, there's a musical sense of that "walk[ing]."

While looking at the lyrics again, I also noticed the first line of the bridge:  "I wanna hold your hand."  This is also the title phrase of a Beatles song, but I don't know if this line is meant to be a reference to it.