It all depends on the audience that you are singing to. Some audiences have a lower threshold of tolerance for bawdy material, even if it is not sexually explicit. For example, Cliff Haslam's recording of "The German Clockwinder". Even though no 4 letter words are mentioned in the song, and everything is innuendo only, I could never sing it to an audience in my orthodox Jewish neighborhood. They would literally run me out of town. I remember once running a "kosher bus tour" to Montauk & Orient Pt., in Long Island. As part of the tour we put the group on the Orient Point to New London Ferry. On the return trip to Long Island, I hired Geoff Kauffman from Mystic Seaport to give a sea chantey concert on board the boat. Before he started, I instructed him that he could sing about anything except sex & Jesus. He turned to me and asked " If you eliminate those 2 categories, what else is left to sing about ?" SOL ZELLER