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Thread #98054   Message #1936890
Posted By: Bert
15-Jan-07 - 12:12 AM
Thread Name: Grammatically Correct Folk Song Lyrics
Subject: RE: Grammatically Correct Folk Song Lyrics
Makes me wonder just how old (or young) is Sorefingers.

When I was younger I used to be horrified by the lyric "Sing it Pretty Sue" when of course it should be "prettily".

Now that I'm older, I love the song and sing it often.

Colloquialisms are part of life, get used to it, you can't say 'Granmaw' in proper English but that doesn't mean that you can't sing it.

Sheesh! (Gawd, there's another one - and another) I've even got songs of my own that I sing with an affected accent.

You just need to learn to speak 'people' rather than English.