Aye, some of "The Merry Muses" songs are a tad bawdy! My husband belongs to a couple of local Burns Clubs where it is "men only", but even he finds he can't keep up with the late hours they keep or the volumetric whisky consumption! For we females, you can always have a "Jean Armour" night (women only!), she having been Burns' long-suffering wife. A chance to get back at the men with parodies such as "A wummin's a wummin, for a' that." My preference is for the less formal mixed nights, with fewer of the traditional speeches, just the Address to the Haggis, then lots of songs and poems. This is how we do it at our local folk club, with our MC, a great Burns scholar, putting together a great line-up of songs and poems, and revolving around some theme or other of Burns' life. He starts asking us in September what we want to do next January, so that there's no duplication of songs or poems!
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