# Songs that can't do grammar no more **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 7, 2013, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536 "2013-02-07T01:58:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Gesturing\_Mildly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/65b543/32.png) [@Gesturing\_Mildly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gesturing_Mildly)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536/61 "2013-02-08T18:11:18Z")
I love Faith No More, and I love [“Just a Man”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej-AqjImTJE) but this line kills me. I always try to convince myself that _I’m_ the one who’s wrong: To kiss the sun of east and west And hold the world at his behest To hold the terrible power To whom only gods are blessed What’s wrong with “with which only gods are blessed”??? ---
**Author:** ![EMCEE\_98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5ac83/32.png) [@EMCEE\_98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EMCEE_98)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536/62 "2013-02-08T18:53:56Z")
\*Weep No More \*by Bad Company: So don’t you weep no more, Don’t you weep no more. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536/63 "2013-02-08T19:06:44Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > “Songs she sang to me, songs she brang to me” – Neil Diamond, “Play Me” Wicktionary actually has a listing for brang as the simple past tense of bring, though it lists it as colloquial, local, slang, etc. Still… ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536/64 "2013-02-08T23:48:40Z")
> [@Imasquare](#): > > Yeah but Pat Boone is possibly the squarest man in the world. Ain’t that the truth! ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2013, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536/65 "2013-02-09T02:48:21Z")
> [@Astral\_Rejection](#): > > I think the objections comes from the two lines together: > > “… proud to be an American / **where** at least…” I hate that song with every brittle fiber of my blackened heart, but you can sorta stretch it to: “I’m proud to be an American, _under which circumstances_ at least I know I’m free.” Not that Comrade Greenwood had that particular construction in mind, but I’d be compelled to let him off on a technicality. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2013, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536/66 "2013-02-09T03:14:35Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > I hate that song with every brittle fiber of my blackened heart, but you can sorta stretch it to: “I’m proud to be an American, _under which circumstances_ at least I know I’m free.” > > Not that Comrade Greenwood had that particular construction in mind, but I’d be compelled to let him off on a technicality. It could also be parsed as “I’m proud to be an American _currently in a location where_ at least I know I’m free.” ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2013, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536/67 "2013-02-09T04:58:25Z")
Bess, you is my woman now, you is, you is… ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2013, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536/68 "2013-02-09T05:02:41Z")
“The Matrimonial Stomp” from “Li’l Abner”: > [@](#): > > You gets up at the crack of dawn. THAT’S RIGHT! > Slops the hogs and y’ mows the lawn. POOR SOUL! > Saws the wood and reforms the chores, UNN HUNNH! > While the rainy and wet out doors “A-CHEW” > You comes home to familiar scenes, AH, YES! > And a plate of familiar beans, “OH, NO”! > There’s twenty-two screamin’ kids, ALL MINE? > Makin’ both of you flip yo’ lids, WHAT ELSE? > You is jumpin’ out of your skin, YOUR NERVES! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2013, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536/69 "2013-02-09T05:07:15Z")
The classic children’s song “It ain’t gonna rain no more” has as its chorus > [@](#): > > Oh, it ain’t gonna rain no more, no more > It ain’t gonna rain no more > How the heck can I wash my neck > If it ain’t gonna rain no more? In a self-referential twist, one of the myriad verses (seriously, there must be thousands of them) goes > [@](#): > > Oh, it isn’t going to rain any more, any more > It isn’t going to rain any more > Well the grammar’s right, but it sure sounds trite > And also it’s a bore ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536/70 "2013-02-12T06:25:05Z")
Dangit, I’m glad I’m not in a band with any of ya’! It’s their language, they can do what they want with it. Ok, I’ll go away now. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536/71 "2013-02-13T13:02:31Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > “Songs she sang to me, songs she brang to me” – Neil Diamond, “Play Me” > [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > OW! Ow ow ow! My ears! Goddammit! …but what do you think about the _grammar_? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-cant-do-grammar-no-more/649536.md?page=3)