"Some Others I've Seen" (Was Grice on mean-N and mean-NN)

Lennon cannot scan or rhyme. It's all reason for him. "clothes" with 'road'. Give me Keats' Cockney rhymes anytime -- "Mean Mr. Mustard", this blog.

But --

things you do to abide by Grice

I don't give a hoot what the dictionary says.

-- and keep remembering lyrics where 'mean' feature.

I don't mean mean-n or mean-nn. I mean mean as in mean mister mustard.

"Some others I've seen"

-- NOW _THAT'S_ a lyric that scans and flows so fluently it hurts. I just love the rendition, which my mother thinks too jazzed up -- in "Songs that Won The War". It's indeed a 1914 hit:

Some others I've seen,
Might never be MEAN
Might never be cross,
Or try to be boss
But they wouldn't do.

For nobody else but Grice gives me that thrill!