The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #127788   Message #2854480
Posted By: mayomick
02-Mar-10 - 05:35 PM
Thread Name: Poor grammar in lyrics
Subject: RE: Poor grammar in lyrics
No holds barred when it comes to writing a good song. Tautology can work fine and well in a song also . A redundancy in prose like "fine and well" sounds rotten ,but in a song it can strenghten a meaning while supplying the necessary syllables to fit a rhymne .As in The Rising of the Moon which contains the lines.

"I bear orders from the captain make your ready quick and soon /for the pikes must be together by the rising of the moon."