Saving you the expense of going to college in one song.

[BOP]

Okay, maybe.

I may have posted this, once upon a time; I forget.

 

[vraiblonde]

My English Lit professor is on my Facebook and I posted that fun fact and tagged him. He couldn't get it out of his head and now he uses it in his class.

 

[SamSpade]

My English Lit professor is on my Facebook and I posted that fun fact and tagged him. He couldn't get it out of his head and now he uses it in his class.

It's called "common meter" or ballad meter. You can also do it with Amazing Grace and America the Beautiful.

It doesn't work with most common songs, because too many of them follow no poetic meter or pattern at all.

 

[vraiblonde]

Amazing Grace

Ugh, thanks for the earworm, I'll be singing Amazing Grace to the tune of Gilligan's Island all day