It is the pc brigade that my vitriol is aimed at.
It is they who with their self righteous attitude stir up race, religeous or feminist rancour toward things that are completely devoid of any such intent.
If my wife disturbed ME while I sat at my ease, if she did all she wants, and said whatever she felt like, without recourse to moral or social mores, then I should complain! Be it in fun (as I take it this verse is) in the verse of a song about men drinking in the company of other men. It is not mysogany(sp) any more that calling her "black as a coal" is racist. But if the pc brigade make enough noise about it, all those who choose to sing this song as written will be considered mysoganistic and racist by the ordinary folk who are influenced by their rhetoric.
As for giving the wife two black eyes, do you really suggest that this is a serious call for physical abuse against females to be promoted?
Sure it would be shocking if it were a song written today, but it is a song written yonks ago when such things were accepted, and sung with a slightly comical emphasis today as a dig at our forefathers attitudes. I wouldnt sing it in a home for battered wives, but I wouldnt have the verse banned either.
So YES, burn in hell, for all the harm you do in the name of good.