Only one of these famous titles is correct. Which one?

Lay/Lie/Lain/Laid. . . Oy vey, these are tough. It starts out simple enough: "lay" takes an object and "lie" does not. You lie down on the bed (or she lies or I lie) but you lay a book on the bed. Here's where it gets tricky: "lay" is also the past tense of "lie", while "laid" is the past tense of "lay". So when you're talking about how you got on that bed yesterday evening, you would say, "I lay down on the bed last night." And if you grabbed your book too, you'd say, "I laid that book on that bed." So, Faulkner's title is correct because As I Lay Dying refers to a past condition. Dylan, on the other hand, should have told that lady to lie, not lay. Ditto for Clapton's instruction to Sally.

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