During WW2 in the UK there was a popular song referring to the hopes people had for the future once the war was over, especially to the end of the total blackout regulations which meant there was no outside lighting at all anywhere in Britain during the hours of darkness - it was Stygian black everywhere out of doors unless of course there was moonlight.
It went like this:
I'm gonna get lit up when the lights go up in London
I'm gonna get lit up as I've never been before
You will find me on the tiles
You will find me wreathed in smiles
I'm gonna get so lit up
I'll be visible for miles.
The city will sit up when the lights go up in London
We'll all be lit up as the Strand was, only more, much more,
And before the party's played out
They will fetch the fire brigade out
To the littest uppest scene you ever saw.
Of course "gonna" is used universally. How silly that song would sound if the formal" going to" was used instead, even back in those far more formal days than now.
It went like this:
I'm gonna get lit up when the lights go up in London
I'm gonna get lit up as I've never been before
You will find me on the tiles
You will find me wreathed in smiles
I'm gonna get so lit up
I'll be visible for miles.
The city will sit up when the lights go up in London
We'll all be lit up as the Strand was, only more, much more,
And before the party's played out
They will fetch the fire brigade out
To the littest uppest scene you ever saw.
Of course "gonna" is used universally. How silly that song would sound if the formal" going to" was used instead, even back in those far more formal days than now.