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A few people asked me what the hell I sang there Saturday night when Henning told me to tell the audience a stupid joke whilst he conversed with the soundman. It 's just a parody song I wrote, uh, probably around age 17. No, wait, it was in college (probably 19) because the lyrics combine phrases from grammar rules with linguistics sentence construction principles. So it is a convoluted mess but here are the lyrics, for what it's worth:
HERE COMES SUBORDINATE CLAUSE
Here comes Subordinate Clause, here comes Subordinate Clause
Right down Sentence Structure Lane
With dangling participles and double negatives
Riding in his Subcategorization Frame
Be careful of your tenses, watch out for run-on sentences
Your pronoun should have a clear antecedent
If you're doing a derivation for a subject/auxiliary verb transformation,
Make sure your subject and verb are in agreement
Wow, that's as hard to type as it is to sing.
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