MC Frontalot - Tongue-Clucking Grammarian lyrics
[MC Frontalot - Tongue-Clucking Grammarian lyrics]
Young people today could
Probably benefit from
My 12 years in college so
Here's some advice: If you're a
Young person who writes poetry
Throw it away right now
Tut, tut, tongue-clucking grammarian, yo
Tut, tut, check your punctuation
Tut, tut, tongue-clucking grammarian, yo
Tut, tut tut, tut
Anybody, wonder what you’re up against?
You get clucked at dense: your best defense
You jest relent! You’re too bright
Not to do it
I go "foopth" on that, an onomato-poo-ic
And while I’m on the
Topic of Frontalot’s tongue
I should mention that it’s knotted
But it comes undone
And as it unravels, the cluck emit's
The discipline in your ear
Stuck in your head like a hit (goes)
Tut, Tut! Tut, Tut!
Listening to hit records led
To your sad state
You ought to take talk seriously
Put it to pate
And it’ll seep in that’s my supposition
And I suppose, in subjunction, if it did
I’d listen to what you said next for once
It’s imperative! Take off the hat! The dunce
Needs it back and Front’s on
Track to your brain
Seek now to retrain the nerdcore refrain
(goes)
Tut, tut, tongue-clucking grammarian, yo
Tut, tut, check your punctuation
Tut, tut, tongue-clucking grammarian, yo
Tut, tut tut, tut
Tut, Tut! Tut, Tut!
Quit arguing! You need your verbs to agree
With their subjects’ relative plurality
And I cannot believe grad school let you go
When flunking is the only present
Participle that you know
Setting my flow by the modal auxiliary, yo:
I should
Shall and ought to aim the artillery
So high overhead struggle to rise
One day, issue the syllable that I emphasize
Tut, Tut! Tut, Tut!
I will throw tuts at inelegant couplets
You want to talk at me?
You need more than luck, wit's
And charm when the tongue comes clucking
Every line you lay down
Every error you tuck in
It’s true I’ve been guilty on
More than a song
I don’t preach how I practice
And that’s lifelong if it’s mine
I’m gone can’t reverse engineer it
But when y’all fuck it up
Me and I get to hear it
Tut, tut, tongue-clucking grammarian, yo
Tut, tut, check your punctuation
Tut, tut, tongue-clucking grammarian, yo
Tut, tut tut, tut
Probably benefit from
My 12 years in college so
Here's some advice: If you're a
Young person who writes poetry
Throw it away right now
Tut, tut, tongue-clucking grammarian, yo
Tut, tut, check your punctuation
Tut, tut, tongue-clucking grammarian, yo
Tut, tut tut, tut
Anybody, wonder what you’re up against?
You get clucked at dense: your best defense
You jest relent! You’re too bright
Not to do it
I go "foopth" on that, an onomato-poo-ic
And while I’m on the
Topic of Frontalot’s tongue
I should mention that it’s knotted
But it comes undone
And as it unravels, the cluck emit's
The discipline in your ear
Stuck in your head like a hit (goes)
Tut, Tut! Tut, Tut!
Listening to hit records led
To your sad state
You ought to take talk seriously
Put it to pate
And it’ll seep in that’s my supposition
And I suppose, in subjunction, if it did
I’d listen to what you said next for once
It’s imperative! Take off the hat! The dunce
Needs it back and Front’s on
Track to your brain
Seek now to retrain the nerdcore refrain
(goes)
Tut, tut, tongue-clucking grammarian, yo
Tut, tut, check your punctuation
Tut, tut, tongue-clucking grammarian, yo
Tut, tut tut, tut
Tut, Tut! Tut, Tut!
Quit arguing! You need your verbs to agree
With their subjects’ relative plurality
And I cannot believe grad school let you go
When flunking is the only present
Participle that you know
Setting my flow by the modal auxiliary, yo:
I should
Shall and ought to aim the artillery
So high overhead struggle to rise
One day, issue the syllable that I emphasize
Tut, Tut! Tut, Tut!
I will throw tuts at inelegant couplets
You want to talk at me?
You need more than luck, wit's
And charm when the tongue comes clucking
Every line you lay down
Every error you tuck in
It’s true I’ve been guilty on
More than a song
I don’t preach how I practice
And that’s lifelong if it’s mine
I’m gone can’t reverse engineer it
But when y’all fuck it up
Me and I get to hear it
Tut, tut, tongue-clucking grammarian, yo
Tut, tut, check your punctuation
Tut, tut, tongue-clucking grammarian, yo
Tut, tut tut, tut