Grammatical Errors in Recorded Music...

From "L.A. Woman" by The Doors, there's this howler:

"If they say I never loved you
You know they are a liar"

Even when I was a kid this one made me shake my head

-- Howard
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There's a difference, I'd suggest, between plain old bad writing -- like the bit by The Doors I cited above -- and something done for effect. No one hearing Dylan sing "I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more" would be led to believe by the double negative that he fully intends to put in more time laboring for Maggie. (Or for her brother, or for her pa, for that matter.)

"Satisfaction," one of the great rock 'n' roll songs of all time, is similar, I think. Though it may not please the English teachers, it's right on the beam, and wouldn't have been nearly as good any other way.