Joe Offer - "PC pressures would make this quite a difficult song to sing at a club these days, which is a pity as there is actually nothing in the song itself that could offend. If only it had been called 'Old Racoon'!" http://www.joe-offer.com/folkinfo/songs/547.html BS Ken Don't blame me. That comment came from an Englishman (a very nice Englishman, but an Englishman nonetheless). I just host the folkinfo archive. But I think I agree that people get nervous about the word "coon" nowadays. -Joe, whose grandfather was Charles Coon-
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