The melody is lovely and it is well crafted. I don't find it too bad myself, although I don't usually sing it, but my true-love says it's plastic. I think the line "you must raise our child with dignity" is the one that really upsets him --not the way she would have put it in the 19th century. That's true I think. Mind you he cries through "Little Rosewood Casket" and he thinks that's just as false.