Homophone? Methinks another name for the pink oboe... Freudian dear boy.

If it is not PC enough to refer to red headed people, two songs in my repertoire are buggered..

My red headed mot from Ringsend. (Learned during my days working in Dublin where a young lady from said district took my attentions, as Michael would have it said.)

1952 Vincent Black Lightning. Possibly one of the most wonderful songs the blessed RT ever wrote, and a contender for the best song I know...

As I said before, kids will be kids and differences are picked up on regardless. The problem with bigots is that they sometimes prevent us to from enjoying differences by using them for reasons of hate, having never quite grown up. My Dad died when I was small and some kids taunted me and started kicking me for having a dead Dad, till I grabbed the biggest of them and kicked the crap out of him. I was caned for that... You get over it, live with it and once you get older accept it adds to life's experiences.

On the ginger front, the one that got away was of said ilk... Wrote more songs about her than any other subject.