Wee Cooper is a variant of Child 277 The Wife Wrapt in Wether Skin and there are 100s of versions. Compared with most other Child Ballads it's quite tame. First of all it's a joke, not a real situation. Secondly rightly or wrongly it passes as a piece of history from at least 300 years ago. (The story is much older, The Wife Wrapt in Morrel Skin.) If you start editing out pieces like this there'll hardly be any folksongs left. With any historical song you have to be careful where you sing it and hopefully be able to give an intro validating your performance of it. Singing about something does not mean you condone it. Whaling/hunting/murder and a host of other unPC subjects.