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Thread #109102 Message #2276714
Posted By: john f weldon
01-Mar-08 - 03:00 PM
Thread Name: Art's Politically Incorrect Songs - workshop
Subject: RE: Art'sPolitically Incorrect Songs-wrkshp
From an early Pete Seeger record:
I had a wife and got no good of her
Here is how i easy got rid of her
Took her out and chopped the head off her
Early in the morning (etc....)
"It's a shame to Whip your Wife, on a Sunday" (fiddlin John Carson)
Best of all, the earliest versions of Old Man River.
Paul Robeson actually used the dreaded N-word in early versions, and I have an Al Jolson version that does also. It is far more poignant than later revisions.
Ethnic sensitivity (although sometimes a good thing) is often the enemy of poetry.