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Thread #67677   Message #1133767
Posted By: greg stephens
11-Mar-04 - 08:08 AM
Thread Name: Songs you sing and songs you don't sing!
Subject: RE: Songs you sing and songs you don't sing!
Interesting what Deckman said about the Foggy Dew. I have sung this song during the last six decades, in various versions, to three assorted tunes. And I have specifically changed the words accordingly over the years, depending how I felt about the story as I grew up and changed. In particular, I reworked a bit that I thought was offensively "double-standard". The lines
"I never told him of her faults"
or
"I never told him what she done" occur in old versions. I make a point of singing
"I never told him what we done" now.
   Normqally I cant be bothered with changing songs for PC reasons, either sing'em or chuck'em is my philosphy. This one stands out to me as the one occasion when I've made a feminism-influenced PC change in a song I perform.