The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #29116   Message #368943
Posted By: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
05-Jan-01 - 03:44 AM
Thread Name: Grammar in Songs
Subject: RE: Grammar in Songs
My favourite (non-folk) one is in Elvis' "One Night": "I ain't never did no wrong".
It might make the Professor Randolph Quirks of this world have a conniption fit but it seems apt enough in context.
...and as for the blues...no, I don't think correcting their grammar would improve them, do you?
RtS