Linn, for whatever reason I've never changed the gender in some of the songs I do. Lots of times I'm not even sure from who's perspective the story is coming from. The most obvious one that comes to mind is The Animals changing "House of the Rising Sun" to a male perspective when it (and it's noble antecedants) were always from the female point of view. They learned it from Bob Dylan, who learned it from Dave Van Ronk, but changed "poor girl" to "poor boy". Hell of a Farfisa organ part though!

Rick