Don's "All this chitter chatter makes I smile" makes me think of a well-known English folk song that uses that construction. What's the song? Is that construction (makes I do something) used with frequency in any region of England?



I think that if a grammatically-incorrect language construction appears commonly in spoken English, it's perfectly OK to use it in a lyric. But when it's not common usage and done just to match a meter or rhyme, it's WRONG, WRONG WRONG!!!! (are you hearing what I'm saying, Neil Diamond?)

-Joe-