Songs are a great tool in the EFL classroom, all teachers know that. My point here is that they are great because they help our students resist our deep-rooted obssessive tendency to demand correct use of English when native speakers hardly speak "correctly" (in traditional prescriptive terms) at all.
Here are some examples (they may sound old-fashioned to you but you will surely provide up-dated examples of your own favourite bands). Comment on the forms that would surely be criticised by prescriptive grammarians:
Bob Marley: "no woman no cry"
Rolling Stones: "all the dreams we held so close seemed to all go up in smoke
Tracy Chapman: "I got no plans I ain't going nowhere" "You got a fast car
And I got a plan to get us out of here" "I been working at the convenience store"
"You see my old man's got a problem //He live with the bottle that's the way it is"
The Beatles: "when I'm home, feeling you holding me tight, tight"
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