I sing "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" as "Black Girl" which sometimes gets me stares when I'm busking but i don't see it as that bad. I will not perform Peg Leg Howell's "Skin Game" which sounds to me to have a lyric that goes, "They handcuffed the niggers to me, lovin' babe, they handcuffed the niggers to me." I'm just not going to sing anything like that.

Ewan MacColl and A.L. Lloyd do a sea song that contains the lyric, "And who do you think was the skipper of her, Row Boys Row, Why Bully Hayes the nigger-lover, Row Me Bully Boys Row." Recording it is one thing but singing in front of people--no.

I heard an old cylinder with a song about "Mr. Jappy Jap Jappy" who filled in the gappy gap gappy in the west of the mappy map mappy. Again, I don't consider this terribly racist--it's not meant as an attack on Japanese people--but I sure wouldn't sing it in public.

Zip Coon I wouldn't sing but to play it as "Turkey in the Straw" is perfectly fine by me.