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    I Don't Wanna Wait

    I Don't Wanna Wait 5 Most Embarrassing Rock Grammar Gaffes Music picture
    "Say a little prayer for I"

    No desire to rhyme can excuse this cringe-inducing lyric from
    Paula Cole.
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    Squonk

    Squonk 5 Most Embarrassing Rock Grammar Gaffes Music picture
    "All in all you are a very dying race"

    That is some serious "Engrish" from these English progsters!

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    Live And Let Die

    Live And Let Die 5 Most Embarrassing Rock Grammar Gaffes Music picture
    "But in this ever changing world in which we live in"

    Only the "Cute" Beatle could manage to put the same preposition at the beginning, middle and end of one sentence
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    My Love

    My Love 5 Most Embarrassing Rock Grammar Gaffes Music picture
    "My love does it good". With apologies to Carly Simon, nobody butchers English half as good as him.

    Sir Paul has often said that he can't read music. I'm not even sure he can read English.

    Granted, "My love does it well" doesn't have the same panache, but the song is a piece of dreck anyway,
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    Any Song By Yes

    Any Song By Yes 5 Most Embarrassing Rock Grammar Gaffes Music picture
    Go ahead, pick a song, any song! Yes is to grammar what George Bush is to leadership. The trick that elfin word-warbler, Jon Anderson, learned, is that you can mangle grammar all you want if your lyrics don't make any sense in the first place.

    "The words will make you out 'n' out" Truer words were never sung at such a high pitch.

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  1. Anonymous
    I Don't Wanna Wait at 9/20/2009 11:31 PM
    yeh but at least u managed to find a picture of her where she looks shockingly cute. kudos!
  2. Jamesistheman
    5 Most Embarrassing Rock Grammar Gaffes at 12/08/2009 10:41 AM
    Sorry but you pay way too much attention to detail
  3. 3RDGrammerReich
    My Love at 8/31/2009 7:05 PM
    "Nobody Butchers English half as WELL as him... "

    ;-)
    1. ericsandberg [List Creator]
      My Love at 8/31/2009 9:40 PM
      Hey, genius, I was cleverly paraphrasing Carly Simon's 007 song, "Nobody Does It Better" in which she sings "Nobody does it half as good as him"

      Please, I have an English degree, buddy.
  4. carlop
    Live And Let Die at 8/31/2009 7:15 PM
    i think the lyric is actually "in this ever changing world in which we're livin'", which would be correct...
    1. ericsandberg [List Creator]
      Live And Let Die at 8/31/2009 9:37 PM
      That would be nice, but it is not the case. Paul has always had good enunciation and I'm afraid the "ins" have it.
  5. Michael
    Live And Let Die at 12/27/2010 7:06 AM
    Easily the worst line in modern music, however the line is "IF this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry." the distinction is very clear in most live versions. A horrid line none the less.
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