Whoa, Bessie! Whoa, Sally!

We didn't write that song.

With all due respect, folk music is not the shilly shally plastic business that pop recording is.

A song laid down in its own time has its own honor. You can be thoughtful and kind as to whom you sing it, but let us please not seek to rewrite it .

If humans can't face up to their own history, and confront with equanimity the fact that as well as being descended from angels they also come from a species inclined to stupidity, savagery, and hatefulness, they are selling themselves short.

Changing the path of the future is a good thing to do; decency and courtesy to others is a good thing. But rewriting the past because it is unpalatable is not only a cop-out, it is a reactionary form of stupidity in its own right. "He who remains ignorant of the past is doomed to repeat it."

As to "Violate me..." , not to put too rough a point on it, I believe this song was written to be humorous, no?

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