yrlancslad - No harm done (but where does this "banned from Mudcat" come from?). I had actually forgotten about your particular concern - the business of the complaint against you, which you, understandably, had not forgotten about. I was just talking in a general way about those songs. Didn't mean to aggravate any sore spots!

Checking back to your earlier post, I see that you request advice, so I'll give it a try. It is unclear from what you say whether you actually know this person who made the complaint. If you know this person, and you know that he's just a trouble-making busy-body trying - well, I think even if he is, what I would do is write a simple, straightforward letter of apology: "I'm sorry that you were offended by two of the songs I sang. It was not my intention to offend anyone, blah, blah, blah; I felt these songs expressed blah blah from a time in our history when blah blah; unfortunately, I didn't realize that yada-yada-yada. Please accept my apology, and I hope to see you at my show on the 28th." I would proceed on the assumption that the complainant was genuinely offended, and so upset that he couldn't talk to me directly. I would avoid giving a detailed explication of the term "yellow girls"; you've seen in this thread what that will lead to. In fact, I don't think I would mention that term at all; I would just talk about "the songs". It is more important to acknowledge the validity of the complainant's feelings (in the sense that they may be "valid", not that they are necessarily "warranted") than it is to sort out the rights and wrongs of his position and yours. Resist the temptation to imply that he was wrong to be offended.

Don't think of such a letter as an abasement or as an admission of some kind of guilt; it is rather a demonstration that you are a person of goodwill and a classy guy - perhaps even "the better man". And it puts the ball back in his court. In other words, it will be his turn to show that he's a person of goodwill and a classy guy and the better man.

You would probably want to give a copy of your letter to the park authority (or whoever) so that they can see that you are doing your part for public relations. If they are concerned and bewildered about the whole thing, you may want to write them a separate letter to explain your take on "yellow girls".

Hope this helps!