Why "wipe THEM tears" and not "wipe those/your tears"?

Loads of Scots, Irish, English and Welsh English dialects too

Never, ever, try to look at songs hoping to learn "proper" language. The sentences can be strange, even in that dialect of vernacular. The question is not "Why not...?", but "How do I understand it?"

Because songs don't have to be grammatically correct

It’s a colloquial thing. I believe it’s part of AAVE (African American vernacular English) to use “them” instead of “those”. Such as * “Get them coins” (make money) * “Tell them haters to get lost” * “Watch them kids over there”

This may not be a grammatical explanation, but somehow that phrase choice makes it more intimate. "Wipe your tears" would sort of mean "stop crying" with a sense that crying is pointless to the current situation. "Wipe those tears" sounds more encouraging, like I feel for you but now move on. "Wipe them tears" is yet a bit deeper, like whatever made you cry is no longer relevant. Your raspberries are really good: positive assessment, but neutral tone. I'm probably a guest in your house. Those raspberries are really good: sincere pleasure. Now thems some good raspberries: deliberately taking on an affectation for emphasis (assuming it's not your natural dialect). I've had lots of raspberries, and they so often disappoint me, but this batch of raspberries is worth savoring. Probably said to family or good friend, because if I said it as a guest it would sound hyperbolic and insincere. IDK, maybe I'm thinking too hard.

It is VERY coloquial, regional, wording.

It’s informal and dialectal, which is to say it’s not really considered standard. So don’t use it on your term papers or anything, but it comes up in song lyrics (especially, but by no means exclusively, in country music).

Some Americans say that.

It’s not standard English, but very common in certain American dialects

It’s slang

It's not meant to be be proper English. It's meant to convey emotion and common usage.

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It's called the "demonstrative them" and you can [read more about it here](https://ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/demonstrative-them). It's not part of standard (American) English, but it's part of various American dialects (as well as others).

It's just a way of saying it that's more southern US. I can imagine a redneck yelling something like "Bobby! Go check them cows for me!" Overall it's a dialect/slang/improper grammar thing. Also, music is frequently weird about its phrasing to make it flow better, just for future reference.

Them servers as a plural of The in parts of the American West (possibly other places)

It's slang. It's not technically grammatically correct but "them" is often used in replacement of "those/your" by African-Americans, Southern-Americans, and in recent years, Gen Z.

it's probably aave

To save yourself aggravation and confusion.... never assume that song lyrics are grammatically accurate. Grammar comes much farther down the list than tempo, rhyme and rhythm. It is easier to find songs that have grammatical errors than those that don't.

Dialect

Black English

Pretty much all pop music is derived from black American music, and many black Americans speak a version of English called AAVE or(although I have seen this for a while) Ebonics. It uses grammar structures that are considered "incorrect" in standard English. "Them" for these/those is an example "Ain't" for am/is/are not or have/has not Double negatives like "I ain't do nothing" And future forms like "gonna" "finna" and "Imma" You will find these and similar all over English language pop music, no matter what colour the singer's skin is or where they are from

I believe that's Southern US and African English

It's non-standard dialect. It has a kind of a folksy sound to it. It means "those". Examples: "There's gold in them thar hills." (There's gold in those hills over there.) "Them's fightin' words." (Those are fighting words.)

Don't respect English boi just use it without hesitation...

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Lyrics don't follow grammar And it's probably also a slang or dialect

well in this context, it's just slang for "those/your" Meaning, you could swap out them with either of those words and the meaning would stay the same

I said most songs don't use standard language, you said you disagree meaning you think they Do house standard English. You immediately follow that up with saying "some" songs don't use non-standard. I then asked you a question, YOU replied like ans arse hole and now you are trying to call me one. Cute.

It's incorrect, just take it as a mistake or at best extremely informal language.

It's colloquial.

Leave them kids alone !

Thats the same thing in Another brick in the wall, "leave them kids alone". I've always wondered the same thing, but I never paid much attention to that detail

It’s slang, a specific type of colloquial language that sounds uneducated

It is not proper grammar. I’m guessing this is a country song. They usually use a spoken language structure of the Southern US, which doesn’t always follow standard written form.