Boston Globe The Word columnist Erin McKean (who also writes for the Wall Street Journal) had a typically smart piece this past Sunday:
The horror of ungrammatical lyrics
Do language errors in popular songs make you shudder? You’re not alone.
Among McKean’s observations:
A stranger misfire is when songwriters put in an extra preposition. That’s the issue in John Mellencamp’s “Small Town,” in which he sang “I cannot forget from where it is that I come from.” Maybe if you’re lucky, you missed hearing what’s commonly considered one of the “worst Christmas songs of all time” these past few weeks, Andy Williams’s “Happy Holidays/It’s the Holiday Season,” which includes the line: “he’ll be comin’ down the chimney down!”
But – all due respect – McKean missed the best example of all: Paul McCartney’s lyrics from “Live and Let Die”:
But if this ever changing world in which we live in/Makes you give in and cry/Say live and let die
Live and let cry, eh?
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I can’t listen to Lesley Gore’s “She’s a Fool”: “She’s a fool, she’s a fool, she has his love, but treats him cruel,” without adding the “ly,” but long ago decided that therapy wouldn’t help.
The really annoying thing about “Live and Let Die” is that “in this ever-changing in which we’re livin'” would scan just as well – might even be easier to sing. It’s been driving me crazy for almost forty years.
Doesn’t the Poet’s License protect struggling lyricists from wanton attacks like this?
Careful on that one, Steve, Gov. Patrick and the legislature might make a having license for writing poetry mandatory in the state as a revenue generator.
If it’s a percentage and not a flat fee, the state will lose money!