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Thread #116298   Message #2498193
Posted By: Seamus Kennedy
20-Nov-08 - 12:41 AM
Thread Name: Review: Jimmy Crowley & Máirtín de Cógáin in Calif
Subject: RE: SF Tonite - Jimmy Crowley & Máirtín de Cógáin !!!
Joe - in his later years, Tommy Makem who popularized Dick Darby (the Cobbler) also sang "she's cracked".

When he first sang it years ago, he sang "she's black", and it had no race connotations; however, it's liable to be misinterpreted nowadays, hence the change.

Although someone who has a politically correct attitude towards terms referring to mental instability would raise an objection to "she's cracked".

So we'll have to change it again.

Seamus