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Thread #25776   Message #407833
Posted By: GUEST,Dave Bryant d.bryant@kingston.ac.uk
28-Feb-01 - 04:43 AM
Thread Name: Advice Please? - use of offensive words in songs
Subject: RE: Help: Advice Please?
After my rather anti-PC remarks, perhaps I should put my hand up to the fact that I HAVE changed the words of one of my songs to make it more acceptable. I used to sing the song "I touched her on the toe" with the final chorus line of "The more I love, my nigger draw near". Being a lecherous sort of fellow, (is that non-PC ?) I usually try to select a suitable shapely female from the audience to enable me to illustrate the song somewhat. On one ocasion I selected a very attractive girl from the audience and it was only as I reached the last line that the fact that she was black sank in. Since then I have substituted the word "darling". - Mind you most feminists still find the song offensive - Ho - Hum.