"True Story"

Last week, I learned the chords for "True Story," and I realized something about the song I hadn't noticed while just listening to it.  I'm pretty sure that much of the guitar part uses the Bo Diddley beat.  In an effort to confirm this, I listened to all of the Bo Diddley in my music collection and did some research on the internet, but I couldn't find anything that defined it clearly enough to make me confident in my assessment.

"True Story"

In "True Story," the "day" in the phrase "Ev'ry single day" is sung with a melisma (I think it's D C B).  Musically, this gives a sense of number, to illustrate "ev'ry single."