I really loved Duke of Earl by Gene Chandler when I was a child but I had no idea what is was about.

In another forum. someone posted the words of a twee Scottish song Kelvingrove with a reference to the much more down-to-earth text of The Shearing's Nae For You from which the tune was nicked. It reminded me of a long-forgotten incident of being thrown out of school choir practice for singing The Shearing lyrics when we should have been doing Kelvingrove.

I imagine the parents would have banned most of the ballads we were getting into had they realised what their subject matter actually was.