also Melanie Safka on the album Candles in the Rain sings “Lay down, Lay it down, Lay it all down..”
I tend to use the “ley of the land” which employs an Anglo Saxon term meaning a cleared stretch of land or a clearing, and is also the term used for ancient and as yet unexplained alignments on the landscape in the western part of Europe
Lionel: Intransitive lay shows up quite often in song titles and lyrics, as befits the informal register. Bob Dylan’s ‘Lay, Lady, Lay’ is perhaps the best known example.
Stan:
I’ll write a lay,
(But not today),
If “lie” and “lay”
Would go away
Marc:
Getting it ‘right’
Deserves a halo,
But straying does not
Mean having to lay low.
I lay low
On my Li-Lo
How else should it go?
Mar: Very nice, but ambiguous! The first line could be standard past tense or non-standard present tense.
Indeed it could, Stan. And I’m bidialectal, so both are available to me. Audience is all.
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also Melanie Safka on the album Candles in the Rain sings “Lay down, Lay it down, Lay it all down..”
I tend to use the “ley of the land” which employs an Anglo Saxon term meaning a cleared stretch of land or a clearing, and is also the term used for ancient and as yet unexplained alignments on the landscape in the western part of Europe
Lionel: Intransitive lay shows up quite often in song titles and lyrics, as befits the informal register. Bob Dylan’s ‘Lay, Lady, Lay’ is perhaps the best known example.
Stan:
I’ll write a lay,
(But not today),
If “lie” and “lay”
Would go away
Marc:
Getting it ‘right’
Deserves a halo,
But straying does not
Mean having to lay low.
I lay low
On my Li-Lo
How else should it go?
Mar: Very nice, but ambiguous! The first line could be standard past tense or non-standard present tense.
Indeed it could, Stan. And I’m bidialectal, so both are available to me. Audience is all.