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Thread #109102   Message #2276639
Posted By: Art Thieme
01-Mar-08 - 01:30 PM
Thread Name: Art's Politically Incorrect Songs - workshop
Subject: Art'sPolitically Incorrect Songs-wrkshp
Ballad Of Sherman Wu (ethnically insensitive-but funny)
Blow Boys Blow (a whaling song)
Greenland Whalers-- as above
The Diamond -- as above
The Cock fight
Buffalo Skinners
Union Maid
East Of West Berlin
East Texas Red (gun-play to right a wrong)
Blackjack County Chain (murder for a good reason?)
Dobie Bill (gun-play to make things right)
Louis Collins -- gun-play-murder
Electric Chair Blues
The Wind And Rain (killing and making a fiddle from the bones)
The South Coast (mail order bride)
The Ladies Auxiliary (how women can help the union man)
Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly (how can I count the ways?)
Cherry Tree Carol -- blasphemy
Bitter Withy (apocryphal blasphemy)
Billy Vanero (gun-play to set stuff right)
Zack The Mormon Engineer (anti Mormon/polygamy)
Pie In The Sky (blasphemy)
Sioux Indians (ethnic cleansing)
We've Got F.D.R. Back Again (anti Bush politics!?)
Aunt Martha (the dangers of gambling)
God Don't Like Ugly Baby Your Home Is In Hell
Night They Drove O' Dickey Down (Nixon)
Lord Thomas-beheading bride and kicking it against wall)
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These are just the few songs I can recall from my own repertory that were in the workshop called Politically Incorrect Songs. I did it at the University Of Chicago Folk Festival about 1988.

We do tend to toss the baby with the wash-water, do we not?


If Joe, or some kind clone, can pull my last post to the thread about the song "If I Were Free To Speak My Mind" and put it into this thread,it would be seriously appreciated!

Art Thieme