Ever really listen to the lyrics of "Kingdom Coming" (a/k/a "Year of Jubilo")? It's a celebration of the end of slavery. It makes the "massa" out to be the fool, not the slaves. But since it was written in dialect and has a lot of references to "darkies," you can't sing it in public. And it's such a great song.

I also recall an encounter with this topic on an old-timey music newsgroup. Several well-known and often played old-timey tunes have, or had, the "N" word (Gawd, I feel like a hypocrite) as part of the title. The proposal was made to simply substitute "Elvis" for "that word" in all of the titles. Sounds as reasonable as any solution.

Peter.

Peter.