Incorrect english happens all the time in
song lyrics. For whatever reason, the composer needs to go against the rules of grammar in order to make things fit. You may have noticed on the lyric sheet for the Summertime Dream album, everywhere the word
"been" should be, it's written as "bin". Think of Bill Whither's song "Ain't no sunshine when she's gone.." Ain't may be ok, but ain't no is a double negative. One of the biggest licences taken was in Neil Diamond's 1972 hit "Play Me". There's a line that goes "sun she sang to me, song she brang to me..." there's no such word as "brang" !
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