Regards John Denver and a PC treatment to CON, I doubt it was an attempt a Political Correctness. This was on the Album "Arie", about 1971 or 1972. Politcal Correctness was a movement back then.
I had heard Denver do the song as it was written in concert. The changed version may have been at the request of the record label.


I think Judy Collins does the normal third verse which starts
"Nightime on the City of New Orleans" and it is just like everyone elses version. Steve Goodman told me he though Arlo Guthrie's version of the song was the best on record. I disagree of course. I think Goodman's was the best ever was.

Don