"Did you ever hear of the old dear who said to a police constable, 'Officer that man is whistling a dirty song'"

You may think that's a joke, but my mother is offended if someone plays "Redwing," even as an instrumental on the fiddle or whatever - and it's a standard in both the New England and the Western Swing fiddle repetoires - because she's only familiar with it through my late father's singing of it - the words he learned either in his college fraternity or the service.

Peter.