You mean this whole thing was just a carefully planned cover to get some T&A?? Well, that saves me from repeating a three page treatise on how, if we allow accordion players to perform, we certainly shouldn't balk at PI songs.

Seriously, preserve of course. That's our right. Then be careful how you use that right. Did this gig once where my group SANG "Little Log Cabin" instead of just playing it. I did this wonderfully sensitive intro all about the language, and what was going on in the song, and all that right-now stuff, and then we started. Long about the second chorus, a Black man who had not gotten the benefit of our wonderful enlightenment walked in on

"Used to hear them Darkies singin' round the ol' banjo...."

and walked right back out again. When Murphy meets sensitivity, anything that CAN go wrong with consciousness-raising WILL.

Weird echo thing here: I just had this very same discussion at an archivists' meeting yesterday. Somebody wanted to edit all the racist slurs out of a memoir and was advised that that should not be done, although a disclaimer should be added explaining that the memoir reflected opinions not endorsed by the holding agency, etc., etc.

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