Ron... chalk it up to the "geek" in me regarding eye color... and I can deal with the blue as poetic license for sorrow... and I consider the song to be "country"... whatever that really is.

It's a dumb mistake that could have been easily fixed, but wasn't. After all... who cares anyway?

You can break or bend the rules of grammer to make a point, but you still need to know the rules. Fact/reality should have its own value and then when you do somthing like refer to eyes turning blue - you are doing it to make a point. Not making something up because you need a word to fit the rhyme. I can't make myself sing it because I know that it is wrong, anymore than I can say 2 plus 2 is equal to 3 as if I mean it.   Overall, it's a fun tune and amusing story that mostly makes it into the "willing suspension of disbelief" that is critical to all fiction. Like I said... it is that one line that irks me.

Over reaction? Maybe.... but....

There is too much ignorance in the world... and in farming I deal with folks who honestly have no clue where their food comes from... and in my profession as an environmental analyst, no concept of human impact on the world around them... or anything relating to what I grew up thinking was commonsense.

most kids today can't cook a meal from scratch, repair their own clothes - never mind trying to make them, build or repair much of enything... and then they read something on the internet or see it on TV and it becomes the gospel truth. Facts become what someone else says, not what can be observed and verified. Then they turn 18 and have the power of the vote... it scared me in 1969 and it still scares me today.