back to the point about songs being offensive because they are combining tragic history with an uptempo beat. That is just plain how a lot of songs are sung...very very common in the Irish tradition...in 1847 Paddy's on his way to heaven..if he left one kid he left eleven while working on the railway...or my back is nearly broken from the clear day light to the dawn and i know i'llnever be able to plow the rocks of bawn.
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or in Peter mberly assuming you sing the right..yes there is a right and a wrong here...tune..i was hit by a big log and died tra la la..

enlist bonny laddy and come awa with me to the crimean?? wars,,,or come sail to high barbaree..to execution's dock i must go i must go..put my head upon the block...or the6y gave us a pension of 2 pence every day but we will nevertheless make the rafters ring..

I love those songs..no one is trying to offend anyone..it is courage in the face of terrible wretchedness...mg