I have to point out that Bob Dylan did more to mangle the language than probably anyone else in the songwriting field...because he was trying to emulate Woody Guthrie, and various old time blues singers, and so on. He knew good English, but frequently chose not to use it. And yet us pedants love Bob! (Well, I do anyway...)

This is weird.

It just goes to show that Dylan is, as usual, allowed to do whatever he pleases, regardless of the usual rules. It's the DYLAN EXEMPTION...one of the things that makes him so fascinating to people like me. :-)

- LH