I was intending to raise this some time ago, but I've looked back over my postings and can't find it. If it is already there somewhere, apologies.

One of my pet hates is a singer repeating the first verse at the end. I grant that it may work well in a few instances, but in many instances it just prolongs the song (which is especially annoying if the singer has left some verses out) and sometimes it makes a nonsense of the story. A glaring instance, which I've heard from several singers, possibly because they all got it from the same source, is the one that opens "I wonder what's keeping my true love tonight". By the end of the song, even if it's not totally clear who's saying what, it is clear that both partners know that this particular romance is over. There is no more wondering what has happened. So the "I wonder" verse just doesn't fit at all. And yet they all sing it again.

This may be simply a particular instance of a common syndrome of learning words more or less parrot-fashion and singing them without giving enough thought to their meaning.

End of whinge. Switch off cantankerous old curmudgeon persona.