It’s English that
is wrong, even though it looks so right
And grammar
that’s right even when it looks so wrong
But you can do
just what you like if you’re trying to write a song
To choose and
have chosen are completely okay
But to squeeze
and have squozen, say the latter no way
To sing and have
sung will always get a tick
But to drink and
have drunk, when sober gets flicked
Don’t ever think
I rung you, when you should have said rang
But it’s okay to
say hung, and even that you hang
But I don’t
understand it, just when is it okay
For the English
language to put such things in my way
It’s “I” before
“e” except after “c”
Except when it
isn’t, which makes no sense to me
And never oh
never start a sentence with “and”
Except when you
need to, which I don’t understand
Is it just
grammar, or is it just style
I’ve got a few
books, but it might take a while
To look up the
rules and apply them steadfast
For I am the
grammar pedant, by me nothing gets past
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