The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #29116   Message #367309
Posted By: GUEST,--seed
02-Jan-01 - 05:59 PM
Thread Name: Grammar in Songs
Subject: RE: Grammar in Songs
There ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe,
The light you never showed.
There ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe,
I'm on the dark side of the road...

That's the way I learned it--ain't it the way he done writ it?

My favorite line exemplifying apalling grammar, but unchangeable none-the-less:

Eng(uh)land swings like a pendulum do,
Bobbies on bicycles two by two...

but the almost ubiquitous "for you and I" frosts my 'nads almost as much as "I could care less."

--seed